Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registrations thus far received indicate that the appeal to parents and students is about evenly divided among three classes. About one-third are graduates of Preparatory Schools whose parents wish to give their sons a year of travel under exceptional auspices before entering college or business. About one-third are undergraduates who want to receive credits for their year's work so they will lose no time, but many ignore the question of credits, whose parents are interested more that their sons receive a broad education rather than a technical one based upon a degree. The other third are graduates...
...never simple"-"Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others"-"Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel quite certain they mean something else."-"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone"-"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train...
Major Beith bases his play on the human weakness which convinces a man or woman that one horse will travel a certain distance in a briefer period than several other horses. Two of his characters are habitues of the tracks; another is a stony old justice of the peace who believes betting sinful. The efforts of the young sportsmen to alter the old man's opinion, plus their efforts to marry young women of his household, compose the play's development. 0. P. Heggie is the leading player, though a relatively obscure actor named Walter Kingsford gives...
...education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them...
With the University nine engaging Pennsylvania on Franklin Field, the undefeated 1929 squad will travel to Exeter today to clash with the strong schoolboy team this afternoon. At the same time the University Seconds will attempt to break into the win column when the squad journeys to Andover to encounter the undefeated Blue nine...