Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small circulation of college literary magazines is sufficient proof that it is to outside periodicals that students turn when inclined to while away time over a short story or a discussion of a cosmopolitan problem. On the other hand it is possible that a large student public could be brought to patronize a magazine which should undertake exclusively to mirror their own life and activities. College newspapers perform this function in an abbreviated form; it would be the task of the proposed college "lit" to select topics of controversial or novel interest and develop them in a literary manner...
Peter spent his first year trying to be manager of all the teams there were, but in short order he left each competition. He found that you worked so hard to become a manager that there was no time left to do nothing in. And if you were going to meet all the best people, which was Peter's heart's desire, you had to spend most of your time doing nothing for that was what they...
...pure amusement this film ranks high, as an all-talking, even higher, but in comparison with the best products of the old "silver screen" it falls lamentably short. In the whole picture there are really only two changes of scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...
Yesterday, the infielders and outfielders had about an hour and a half of batting practice and a short period of fielding work...
...yard high hurdles, Harvard grabbed an unexpected third when F. J. Mardulier '30 nosed out Heasley and Young of Cornell in a race in which Collier of Brown, the winner, fell short of equalling record time by one-fifth of a second...