Word: shows
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...each relay team, and cups will be given to the members of the winning team. On the same date there will be a diving exhibition, and a water polo game between the first and second teams. The University squad will be chosen from the men who show the most promise in this meet. A practice meet with Brown and four dual meets with members of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association have been scheduled for the University team during February and March...
...enrollment by states in all departments of the University is much the same as last year. The figures show a representation from Massachusetts of 50 per cent, of the total registration in the University, a decrease of about 1-2 per cent, from last year. The present representation from New York State is 14 per cent, of the total registration as compared with 12 1-3 per cent, last year. Thirty-three foreign countries are represented, of which Canada with 42 has the largest representation...
...failure. Let it suffice that John Harvard's gifts to this University were important enough to entitle him, in the opinion of his contemporaries, to give his name to the institution of which we are all proud to form a part. With general support the demonstration this evening will show how we value the timely aid which our virtual founder gave to the struggling College...
...phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep"; nor is it, strictly speaking, the "show" that brings beggars "astraddle of the guys what's got the dough." I question also whether the dialect is used quite consistently throughout. In any case, it seems regrettable that the phrase "bunched up" should occur twice in fourteen lines. E.E. Hunt's sonnet, "Cloud-land," is compact and musical...
...bulk of the number is as usual made up of fiction. "The Big Violin" by L. Simonson does not realize the possibilities of a good idea. Mr. Simonson sought to show in a stolid Teuton character the triumph of idealism over a materialistic environment, in connection with the conjuring of a masculine spirit out of a bass viol. He finally puts into the mouth of his chief speaker an expression of confidence in this triumph which his readers will hardly share. The characters are flimsy, the narrative is not well articulated, and the style is crude. If one must quote...