Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Midnight March. The field commander for Colonel Garibaldi was that famed Catalonian patriot, Colonel Francisco Macia. For years he has striven to foment a revolution which should set his native Cataloniaf free from the dominance of Madrid. Last week he rode at midnight toward the Spanish frontier with a glad heart. Were not the invading 400 patriots equipped with rifles, machine guns, a medical corp, and even a strong box heavy with newly designed and minted Catalan money? All was prepared...
...What this attitude of first year men toward their work means is shown by the circumstance that thirty seven per cent of last year's class is out of the School. This year I do not intend to wait until June to weed out those who have no place in a serious professional school...
...expected that any present day treatment of the Jew would lay emphasis on the quite secondary but popular problems of religion and of Palestine. Mr. Wise's attitude toward the former is an assumption that as theological faith it will disappear along with theological Christianity. Of Palestine, while enthusing over its possibilities as an experimental station for Jewish ideals, the author admits that it cannot solve the Jewish problem as such...
...Seconds, J. Monroe, Brown quarterback, caught a punt. He was standing on his own 15-yard line at the time, and two tacklers were close upon him. Quick as a flash, Monroe took a half-step forward almost into the arms of his foes, twisted and turned and shot toward the side-lines. Falling in behind perfect interference, he ran the 85 yards to the winning touchdown without a hostile hand being laid upon him. The final score...
...system must be, these men have for the most part, no sense of that subtle relation between tutor and student which must exist, if the system is to be at all effective Furthermore, they are Americans. And to an American, even in college teaching, there must be progress toward position, prestige, or life becomes futile Unlike the Englishman who sees his lifework in being a tutor, these young hopefuls see in a tutorship merely apprentice work, the first step in the social ladder whose top rung is a full professorship. The third difficulty with these tutors is that they...