Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Class of 1930 may, possibly, see fit to abolish the traditional Junior Dance, has aroused the approbation of at least one of the inhabitants of that precinct. For the Junior Dance, or Prom--as you choose to look at it--has been slowly dying for the last ten years; it is time to bury the corpse...
...examination, and the type of examination will be similar to those of previous years. Tentative arrangements provide sets of true-false questions and identity questions to be answered in one hour, and a group of short summaries in "editorial style" not exceeding some 250 words each on eight or ten questions to be selected from a designated list and to be written in two hours. The latter arrangement is intended to replace the "essay topics" that have formed part of previous examinations...
Paralleling the announcement of Professor Tatlock's resignation is the statement that Professor John Tucker Murray, of the Class of 1899, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Ten years as member of the English department and four years as director of the Harvard Summer School indicate a wide and qualifying experience, which augurs well for his incumbency of the English chair...
...root, flourished. Irma Duncan, an adopted daughter, had stayed to spread the gospel and teach children, just as the Great Isadora had taught her, to know music and translate it freely into bodily movement. Last week with twelve best pupils Dancer Irma arrived in Manhattan to begin there a ten-day memorial festival. Her first program, featuring Impressions of Revolutionary Russia, won highest praise. True to Duncan tradition, the twelve young Russians are free-spirited creatures with no regard for conventional dance designs. Manhattan voted them best of the many Duncan disciples who have exploited the name, their dancing...
Pilot Becker, ill, was quarantined in Port-au-Prince. The rest went to Panama, inspected submarine bases, game preserves, laboratories, spied on the canal from the sky. After ten days Pilot Becker, convalescent, joined his companions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes. The others motored the same distance in nine hours. At the capitol they were wined and dined by President Horacio Vasquez. Later Daughter Alicia went bathing, kicked a sea porcupine which retaliated with a dozen barbs to the foot. A native Indian shaman extracted most of them with...