Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most effective method and the temptations to use it too much and carry it too far are strong and many. Both the graduates and the undergraduates enjoy the spectacles which the intercollegiate contests provide, and the students who take part in these contests are willing not only to undergo many weeks of hard discipline, and often unenjoyable preparation, but also to give too much of their time and strength for the privilege of participating. Your Committee appreciates this risk of excess and declares its policy to keep the number of intercollegiate contests within reason. They should not be so many...
When James McNeill Whistler died in 1903, people believed that this masterpiece would forthwith be placed in the Louvre. The curators of that museum, however, decided to let it undergo a seasoning in the Luxembourg. There it has remained. This summer, the room in which it hung was needed for an exhibition of Rumanian paintings. The Whistler, despite the belated protests of U. S. tourists, was put in the cellar...
Yale cannot succeed with the revolution in present-day educational systems while the house is divided against itself. The administrative policy and the teaching system must undergo certain changes to answer the cry of men within the University for a more liberal type of education and for a voice in directing it. There are many sources of attack upon the present system. Some are unsound and easily disposed of; others are based on thoughtful consideration and merit action on their proposed demands...
...practical to undergo this training! When they graduate from the university, they need only open their months and roar with that lusty volume developed on the gridiron, where the embattled players stood. Their bellows will be a shout heard round the world, and all the baseball umpires, hash slingers, train announcers, and senators will muffle their cars in terrified haste. The yell king's thunder is their doom, for only the fittest can survive. He who yells loudest yells best and becomes a superman...
...Elegant roguery on the high seas; brigs putting in from Guinea at midnight with no riding-lights; blackamoors wailing in gyves under iron hatches; these things - no more than sinister rumors to the orderly citizen of 1825 - are familiar enough to all modern worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times...