Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only interesting thing about the " nationwide" strike called by the Marine Transport Workers' Union to tie up shipping on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coast ports, is that it is being run by the I. W. W. From all reports the strike itself is a failure: San Francisco, Seattle, San Pedro, New York, Boston, Baltimore and other big shipping centers assert that their vessels are hardly affected...
...enough extra-curriculum activities at Yale already and the rewards for success in them are sufficiently alluring so that it seems hardly advisable to ask Phi Beta Kappa to forsake its standards and be come also an extra-curriculum activity. . . . The election to Phi Beta Kappa means just one thing, no more and no less, and everyone knows what the key stands for. It means that in open competition with a fair field and no favor the key is given to those who have excelled in the studies of the curriculum, Phi Beta Kappa connotes scholarship and it would...
...thing that left a very favorable impression was the use of pantomime in several of the songs--pieces of highly imaginative acting, which gave a most pleasing result. In this, Delf and Berta Dunn, who was excellent throughout, starred...
...that they will not "crack", or have off days when they revert to their old rowing habits. The Freshmen have nothing to which to revert. As to the idea that it is "guts, not form" which we want, let me suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing to be obtained only by the combination of "form" and "guts". "Form" without "guts" is pretty, but foolish. "Guts" without "form" is brutal stupidity, the sort of thing that makes the last mile utterly impossible; it is an anachronism-"cave-man stuff" is a bit out of date in rowing...
That they do not relish continual defeat is not hard to guess; and from what the average supporter has seen of Harvard football teams he knows that on every squad there are men who understand how to win. Form may be an excellent thing but the layman has a habit of discounting it after the first three miles in favor of plain guts, and though it is not always easy to see clearly or think distinctly at New London one thing simple to grasp would be a Harvard crew crossing the finish first. There are many kinds of systems. Some...