Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protestant Episcopal priest. Wise to the necessity of enlarging his plant through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as became a Good Eastern School. A $135,000 Romanesque chapel, the gift of Trustee E. Walter Clark, was brought stone by stone, slate by slate from England. In keeping, Mr. O made his 140 boys wear starched white collars when they went within to worship...
...English system, in being transplanted, necessarily has been changed in many ways, with the especial purpose of adapting it to the American point of view. It would seem wise to start with as clear a slate as possible with no definite committments to certain methods merely because they have been successful in another country. It has become fairly obvious by this time, that several of the tutors in Lowell House, enthusiastic over the English system because it seemed to fit their personal needs, are unduly eager to start this House off with a strong anglophile bias...
Alabama's Tony Molm and Flash Suther chalked 24 to 13 on Kentucky's clean slate...
Dartmouth comes to Cambridge with a clean slate, having defeated Tilton 8 to 6, Clark School 33 to 0, and Roxbury 7 to 0. Because of its undefeated record, and the absence of any scoring punch in the Harvard backfield, the Green is somewhat of a favorite this afternoon...
...University soccer team kept its slate clean by overcoming Northeastern, winner of a string of 15 straight games, by the score of 5 to 1, yesterday afternoon behind the Business School. The Harvard team clearly outclassed its opponents, and after the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt...