Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sullivan, caretaker of the Jarvis, Holmes, and Divinity courts. Each morning for the past two days the courts have been hardened and stiffened by a night frost, only to thaw again in the afternoon. A warm temperature predicted for last night and today may mark the beginning of a thorough drying of the Jarvis Courts. As for the Divinity Courts, next in line of fitness, the most optimistic promise of Mr. Sullivan did not antedate next Monday...
...thorough-going three-year course will be necessary to train the future mediums; one can imagine the high-sounding titles of "Ectoplasm 56" or "Photography A" or "Ventroliquistics 10". The entrance requirements are designed to develop that democratic student body appropriate to such a science--anyone with a grade-school education is eligible. And at the end, the successful scholars receive certificates proving that they are certified mediums. This is expected to put the "fake" mediums completely out of business;--a step of public benevolence on the part of the Association...
Count Calvi di Bergolo comes from an old Piedmont family. He is a captain in the Italian Army, a thorough sportsman, a lover of horses...
...first soccer practice of the season will be held at 3 o'clock today at Soldiers Field. It is expected that enough candidates will report to make up three teams, which will be given a thorough drilling in the fundamentals. Coach W. R. Welch will strive to work up a system of play based on the English method rather than on the haphazard tactics that were used last fall. The most promising men who will report are: Captain F. G. Wale '25, W. D. Livingston 2E.S., L. J. Barnes '26, and S. E. Gray...
...opening remarks of his lecture. "Nothing of that type now thriving ever existed in Rome or Greece." He then contrasted the mediaeval and modern universities by showing that such attractions as athletics, journalism, dramatics, public speaking, and other collegiate activities were quite unknown; that the faculty tended toward thorough instruction in religion regardless of the field of concentration; and that education was limited to a very few courses on account of the then recent exit of learning from the monasteries. He called attention to the fact that college curriculums, degrees, and faculties developed in the mediaeval university, creating a system...