Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every day I walk by the huge, dumb, cement shell known as the Germanic Museum. For months it aroused in me no feeling but an ironic amusement, common, I fancy, to nearly everyone in Cambridge. But lately, since the last production by the 47 Workshop in Agassiz Theatre, when the achievements of the company were glitteringly spread out for us with the enervating waste in labor under present conditions hung up as a dingy background, the thought has haunted my footsteps...
...William H. Geer, Director of Physical Education, recently gave out the following statement: "We believe that the freshman compulsory athletic system is going very well and that we shell see a much greater effectiveness after it has had a longer opportunity to got going." The plan now in operation was adopted partially as a result of the example set by the "sport for all" doctrine put forward by the war, and partially because of recognition that college athletics, as formerly conducted, made most of the men in the University spectators and a few performers and beneficiaries of the sports...
...long smoldering clerical controversy between the managers of crew and hockey is fought to a finish on the Pavilion ice. Unfortunately for the masses who will doubtless crow to the portals, it is understood that the greater part of the back row seats have been bought up the shell game operators. All those who intend to cheer for the Ice Sweepers' Union will be admitted free...