Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1921 he has devoted his entire time to travel, study, and lecturing on the Central European nations. Last summer he made his fourth visit to Germany, and tomorrow evening he will show the films and slides which he took at this time...
...Strong Hon. '16, professor in the Harvard Medical School, will show motion pictures in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock taken by members of the expedition to Africa from which he returned last fall. He will also speak, comparing the life and customs of the natives in Belgian Congo and in Liberia...
...this point alone does the college show what little confidence it has in the preparation of the student. After he has passed the College Entrance Board Examinations he is obliged to take the scholastic aptitude test, which determines, in effect, whether all this learning has taught him how to study. The very presence of this test as part of the machinery of college entrance proves that the secondary school and college are working at purposes that may not be definitely crossed, but are certainly divergent. College prepares man for life, but the secondary school does not prepare man for college...
After the show was over, there was an unpleasant aftermath of surreptitious doings which further emphasized the mercenary aspect of dog shows. Someone administered a dose of arsenic to Hi-Point Monoplane, prize collie puppy, owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane died a day or so later, to the rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner...
...rodomontade, Evangelist Sunday became emphatic. "The Bible is a bloody book," he roared, "It is a bloody Gospel. It is a bloody world. . . . You can argue against the Bible but you can't argue against sin. ... I can take you out into the streets of St. Louis and show you thousands of cases of substitution...