Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the growing tendency to use vapid syndicated material, their news columns have also degenerated in to stagnancy. In truth there can be no doubt that the decline of their press is largely responsible for the present apathy of the rural electorate...
Miss Hurst's style is irritating. Constant repetition and a confusing habit of referring to the narrator as "You," drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...
...entrance hall will have lofty stained glass windows, a massive vaulted roof supported by stone piers, and a testalated pavement. On each side of the entrance will be two undergraduate reading rooms: the Reserved book room containing nearly 40,000 volumes for general use and the Linonia and Brothers' Room with over 30,000 books of general character. The last named room will be, in purpose and use, almost exactly like the Farnsworth Room of Widener Library. This room is planned to be the most beautiful in the building...
...years. After rather a slow start, they first showed their real power in holding the strong Toronto sextet to a 2 to 0 score. A few days later they invaded Princeton and took the Tiger's measure by a close margin. Showing increasing finish and power and making full use of their remarkable reserve strength they swept on to victories over Williams, Yale, and Princeton again. The final test of the season come in the Dartmouth game which the University skaters won in a hotly contested overtime period...
...University as possible. That a chapel (or even compulsory attendance at chapel as we may see from our Yale neighbors) does not engender among the students an attitude of spiritual exaltation, scarcely requires proof, not is it strange. The student of today, and above all Harvard, has no use for the forms of religion. He lives in an age, as well as in a period of his own life, of revaluation of primary moral and intellectual conceptions; his comfortable faiths and prejudices when tested with experience and the white light of intellectual criticism reveal the bare skeleton of dogma...