Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best professional baseball player in the world; yet he often submits willingly to drudgery that would tend to prepare him for the latter, though recoiling from study that would fit him for intellectual work. This shows a disproportion between immediate ambition and relative permanent values, even as they stand in the mind of the undergraduate himself. Of course, the disproportion is due in large part to a contrast in the amount of applause won by the two forms of activity in college, for few men at any age are so self-con- tained as to be impervious to apparent estimates...
...twice as high as those they charge European manufacturers. The conditions of the American merchant marine, with reference to national defence, are deplorable. Colliers are as necessary to a fleet as cannon; yet we have no colliers. In advocating a system of subsidies the speaker said he did not stand alone: all the great commercial interests of America endorse the system--a system which has been tried by every country which today possesses a satisfactory merchant marine...
...need of a new bridge requires no comment, for we are all familiar with the unsightly patchwork structure which now leads to the Stadium. But there are two obstacles which stand in the way of building a bridge without a draw. These are the riparian rights of the Brighton Abattoir and of the Watertown Arsenal. It is altogether possible that the abattoir's license may be withheld this year, as the section in which it is located is becoming thickly populated; in this case it is not unlikely that the War Department will permit the construction of a bridge without...
...individual actors none stand out except G. P. Gardner and W. S. Sea-mans--Mutt and Jeff--both of whom are exceedingly good. R. C. Foster puts a good deal of spirit into a rather tame part, and J. G. Blaine manages his two songs well. The girls are moderately charming: and the choruses are well trained, active, and effectively made...
...poems none stand out except the one by C. P. A., the second stanza of which would be especially charming were it not for the "paradisal snow." Mr. Gray's "Utopia" is not an improvement on Shakspere. The stories are rather slight sketches than stories. "His Valley" by H. B. Wehle is not effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint...