Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report reveals first the basic generalization, "that there is no substitute for intercollegiate competition in the form of intramural sports; there is place for both." That is almost a truism but it immediately raises the question what places, what positions of relative importance shall they occupy. Already this spring the Second Team intercollegiate baseball schedule has been discarded with the exception of a game with Yale for intramural competition. Such a move would seem to indicate that all second teams, essentially intercollegiate in their organization, would be abolished in favor of class teams. It might logically be extended...
...Resolved: That this house approves a committee for stage censorship similar to that recently proposed for New York," will be discussed at the second meeting of the Spring term of the Debating Union, to be held tonight at 7.15 o'clock in the Union Living Room...
...March. A thousand golf courses lie in expensive desuetude. Eighteen thousand fairways, as many close-clipped greens, countless traps and bunkers are sheathed with ice and snow. Investments totaling $180,000,000 (interest at 6%, 120 days, $3,600,000) yield no return save wistful hopes for an early spring. Two hundred thousand livers, in torsos bound to northern swivel chairs, become torpid, cause unfortunate changes in blood. Club dues continue. Last week four men set out over the difficult Mayfield course, scene of many championships, near Cleveland. A blizzard had just passed that way. Yet three hours later they...
...Dietz von Egloff driven to suicide by his thirst for a real fate among peers immured by aristocratic routine. He takes the wife, then the life, of his best friend. From Fastrade, whom he loves, he can evoke nothing but pity. She takes his body home through a spring morning with birds and sunlight making a festival of death...
...book "The Decline of the West", Oswald Spengler harps, so to speak, upon a variation of an old theme--that history repeats itself. Every civilization, he says, travels the same path; every one has a spring, a summer, an autumn and a winter. There is nothing new under...