Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both eights went out for a short workout in the morning. This afternoon Coach Brown sent his jayvee oarsmen down to the three mile stake. The return trip to the Boat House was made in several easy stages...
Such a system, which puts a premium on short disconnected papers and reducing the final examination to a position of comparative unimportance, cannot justify itself in Harvard University where the whole trend is towards comprehensive examinations, such as the divisional...
History I and Economics A. both elementary courses which fall in the same category with Government I, have worked out a far more satisfactory relationship between the short weekly checking up and final examinations, and there is no real reason why Government I cannot change its methods so that they are more in keeping with a policy which is being so universally followed elsewhere in the University...
...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...Bishop H. M. Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from the U. S. last year. Back-to-Africa movements, implying escape as the answer to the assimilation v. segregation problem, are nowadays viewed with scorn by progressive U. S. Negroes...