Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of the failure of undergraduate participation in Commencement exercises is directly due to the inefficient technique of recruiting the speakers. The only notice given of the impending competition is an uninspiring card informing all and sundry that there is to be a trial for Commencement parts. Little or no attempt is made to stimulate the interest of Seniors in the competition. Worst of all the trials are held in the weeks immediately preceding the divisional examinations. As a result of this system, few men even enter the competition, and those that do rarely represent the leaders of the graduating...
...Joseph Wright Harriman, was killed in an automobile crash in 1928. For his burial, the elder Harriman bought a plot of 2,531 sq. ft. in a cemetery at Locust Valley, N. Y. for $8,246. Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son's grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME...
...your town." His tour netted Oscar ?1,200, but his expenses came to nearly that. And he admitted that he had failed to convert the sprawling, striving, ugly U. S. to the cult of beauty. The U. S. was more interested in the killing of Jesse James, the trial of Guiteau, who shot President Garfield, the arrival of Lily Langtry, "the Jersey Lily." But Wilde did find two things to admire: Walt Whitman and the Rocky Mountains. He took the jibes of the Press in silence, but once he sent for the writer of a particularly outrageous story, asked...
...drunken evening with the intelligentsia, a milk strike in upstate New York, Charles E. Mitchell ("a man with a full-fleshed common face and a fierce, unconvincing eye-a man of a low order, caught in suspicious circumstances and hard put to it to talk himself out") on trial for defrauding the Government, his grandfather's house in a country town. On his way to Russia he found that London now looked "much like Chicago." (And on his way back, through France: "Rigor mortis has set in in Paris.") Prepared to be sympathetic with Russia, he discovered many...
Failure to come through as advertised in the trial heats coupled with Green's leg injury caused the track team to be content with a second place in the I.C.A.A.A.A. Meet in Philadelphia Saturday, and they were lucky to get that...