Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solve is that of the method of attack on the system of course examinations. This solution may be attained by one of two methods: there may be a further refinement of the tutorial system, and improvements in the examinations themselves; or there may be drastic treatment by a swing in the direction of the Continental method, such as that which took place at Chicago. A reorganization of the educational machinery of this kind is an advance sorely needed, and a labour worthy the talents of the next president...
...Earth" for a month. His subjects now were the Flying Codonas, Baby Ruth the fat girl, trapezists, clowns, elephants. He likes best the Codonas' famed Passing Leap, a feat in which Vera Bruce Codona lets go of Lala Codona's hands at the end of the swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before the backswing. Painter Curry liked second best the wise-eyed Riding Clown (Orrin Davenport...
...musical strength, probably as fine as anything this ancient organization has ever exhibited before rows of happy patronesses. E. E. Stowell '34 and R. B. Moore '35 have the distinction of being amateur composers who have produced a score that not only sounds like something but has real swing and force to it. Shrewdly the directors of the production have realized this fact and little else in the way of plot, dialogue, or special acts has been attempted. Apparently any such additions would simply have served to lower the average...
Speakers for the Harvard College Observatory "Astronomical Fair" were announced last night by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory. The "Fair" will swing into action at 7 o'clock tonight, and will be continued for three successive evenings at the Observatory on Garden Street. All proceeds are to go to unemployment relief in Cambridge...
...number one Advocate player is expected to be R. L. Francis '33, who played number five on the Eliot House golf team last year and is rumored to have a fine swing. For the number two position the Advocate has been forced to get hold of a graduate, C. C. Abbot '30, while F. P. Whitbeck '35, better known for his badminton stroke, will play in the third position. G. C. Streeter '34, P.B.H. social service man, and C. L. Sulzberger '34, poet, will held down the last two positions...