Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another "bigger and better" Red Book makes its appearance tonight, on time to the minute. Producing the volume exactly on schedule is no easy feat, in view of the short time allowed the editors, but promptness is perhaps the least cause for their pride. For the 1931 Red Book is superficially far different from its predecessors, and is on the whole among the most artistic creations printed in the 19 years since Red Books first began...
Indians are sedentary and submissive, Britons kinetic and therefore dominant. Significant, last week, was an illustration of this contrast afforded when His Majesty's Viceroy of India, Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin, set out from Delhi to take what he described as "a short rest and vacation...
...three doubles matches were taken in short order by the Harvard netmen...
...thereafter the relation, if any, between student and advisor is usually an artificial one. A more natural relation inevitably exists between the student and his course instructors. The Freshmen are necessarily acquainted with these instructors; the instructors moreover have a first hand knowledge of their students abilities and short comings. Whether it would be possible or desirable to constitute a board of Faculty Advisors entirely of instructors in Freshman courses need not be discussed here. What can be done is to give both instructors and students definitely to understand that the former are available and willing to discuss the academic...
...most part amusing and well done. Such pieces as "Three Men in a Boat", redacted after the manner of Ernest Hemingway, provoke more than a single smile. There is a goodly scattering of squibs worth repeating, and there are verses which have distinct merit. One finds, in short, plenty of evidence that the editors have a talent for making humor prevail, a sense of values, and the wish to carry on an enviable tradition. They would profit most, perhaps, by more widespread and varied co-operation--there are evidences that the burden of this issue has fallen heavily...