Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student shall be allowed to disguise himself by wearing women's apparel" reads the mandate. Why this innocent pleasure should be barred to an undergraduate is difficult to understand...
...Memorial Hall provided such a place, and I understand that the reason that the cafeteria in the Hall was given up was because the students objected to the stereotyped diet, went elsewhere for their meals, and the proposition was no longer a paying one for the University. It is always difficult to provide a varied diet for a regular daily custom. The choice of meats, for example, is not as large as it once was; we have no game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife...
...that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors entering the Freshman class of night school in order to fill the gaping rift between Old and New World customs with a little pitifully mastered book-knowledge, in order to understand the foreign ways of their own U.S.-born children. Probably Playwrights Gropper and Siegel felt they had to make a comedy out of it, so in Act III, Daughter returns to the parental fold, puts aside a flashy lover for the night-school teacher, the young people stay...
...understand how sharply football differs from other games one has only to glance at the Harvard record for the current season. It has been less than four weeks since Harvard was defeated by Geneva, a college of little football reputation, and less than three weeks since it was defeated by Holy Cross, a college surely not of the first rank. Yet, under the tutelage of one Horween, Harvard had learned enough football by Saturday to defeat Dartmouth, which was said to have one of the best teams in the country. Could such a change be wrought in a baseball team...
Fumbling at critical moments, and the inability to understand an aerial attack, did not prevent Cornell's team from beating Michigan State...