Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Extending far up into the sky was a vivid red, which later faded to a milky way effect. The sight had a peculiar reaction on our student body, which, two years ago, endured a double tornado with mingled excitement and horror. Without a doubt, Gainesville, Ga. is the city for unusual weather. ANNE BARBARA GLENN...
...hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished a Georgia farm family by rebuilding its shack, whitewashing the walls, cutting new windows, building a porch. At dusk they had enough energy left to chase across the Georgia hills hunting 'possum...
When the expedition arrived in Manhattan last week, eleven days and 2,000 miles after it had started, Lincoln School began to reckon the results. The editors of the student paper, impressed with the co-operative stores they had seen at Norris, prepared to campaign for a co-operative lunchroom. But when Lincoln's teachers tallied up the scores on attitude tests given the students before and after the trip, one thing that $9,100 of Sloan money had bought amazed them. Most of the class had been in favor of Government planning when they set out, and were...
Compared with his first novel, Starting Point shows a marked improvement-its theme is more mature, its prose less fluttery. Its four central characters are Oxford roommates: Theodore, a small, plump, precocious, post-Huxleyan cynic; effeminate, peace-loving Henry; John, a shy, radical, brilliant science student; and Anthony, popular, versatile, idealistic son of a rich, liberal M. P. The time...
First quake to shake this introverted world is the General Strike. Socialist John joins the strikers; idealist Anthony becomes a disillusioned member of a scab student battalion; effeminate Henry sighs for a role as mediator; cynical Theodore spits esthetically on both sides, cloisters himself in the library through...