Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entries in the prep school class have been filed by Phillips Exeter Academy, Huntington, Horace Mann, Moses Brown, St. George's, Tome and Worcester Academy with Beverly, Brookline, Hartford, Portland, Providence Central and Warwick competing in the high school class...
...most industrious Committee, because there is a wealth of small detail and business problems that rear their ugly little heads every year, screaming for attention from a harrassed staff. In the past the Album Committee have been inexperienced, and consequently have had more difficulty in putting out the annual tome then a more experienced group would have...
Competition will be in Class A and Class B. The following schools have been entered from Class A--Andover, Cushing, Exeter, Hebron, Huntington, Moses Brown, St. George's, Tome School, and Worcester Academy. In Class B the entries are--Beverly High, Brookline High, Brockton High, Gardner High, LaSalle Academy, Lynn Classical, Lynn Eastern High, Portland High, Providence Central High, and Winchester High...
...This policy in turn is based on the practical belief that we relatively immature undergraduates will benefit more from the well-balanced and careful guidance of a teacher intimately concerned with our welfare than from impersonal association with a "genius in his field" who is busy writing his latest tome...
...proud to be called Bryanesque, speaks with a slight German accent, likes to tell how, as an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a $100 public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated he was to receive no other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky...