Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public violence flourishes in Mer Rouge and Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
...kind. The Dean of the School of Business Administration points out in his report that the construction of the subway, by bringing Cambridge closer to Boston, has caused many people to seek apartments here, and suddenly transformed the conditions from those of a suburban to those of an urban place. This has rendered the question of housing for all our students much more acute. It has been most evident in the case of the Freshman Halls, which have rooms for five hundred men, including the proctors. When they were built that was enough for all the Freshmen...
...meeting of the Circulo Espanol held last night, the following officers were elected for 1922: President, Richard Oscar Spero '22 of Detroit, Mich.; vice-president. Urban Tigner Holmes Jr. 2G. of London, Ont.; secretary-treasurer, Javier Edward Molina '24 of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico...
Columbia is one instance of the remarkable development of the urban universities and college which has been going on the world over. It is significant that the next largest American university in numbers is also situated in this city--New York University. Next comes Chicago University. And if we speak in terms of colleges, second and third place belong to our won municipal institutions--the College of the city of New York with nearly 15,000 students and Hunter College with more than 11,000 students. It has become a commonplace to speak of the drift from the country into...
...football teams: First Team Carney, Illinois, Left end Keck, Princeton, Left tackle Callahan, Yale, Left guard Stein, Pittsburg, Center Woods, Harvard, Right guard Scott, Wisconsin, Right tackle Fincher, Georgia Tech, Right end Lourie, Princeton, Quarterback Stincheomb, Ohio State, Halfback Way, Penn State, Halfback Gipp, Notre Dame, Fullback Second Team Urban, Boston College, Left end Goetz, Michigan, Left tackle Wilkie, Annapolis, Left guard Cunningham, Dartmouth, Center Alexander, Syracuse, Right guard McMillan, California, Right tackle LeGendre, Princeton, Right End McMillin, Centre College, Quarterback Garrity, Princeton, Halfback Davies, Pittsburg, Halfback French, West Point, Fullback Third Team Ewen, Annapolis, Left end Voss, Detroit, Left...