Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take either the Anderson-Mencken school or their antagonists too seriously. As Voltaire once phrased it, "let us keep to the middle of the garden path"; but not too strictly, for it is rather pleasant to walk on the controversial borders. And while we are about it, let us ape Mr. Sherwood Anderson's jerky unpremeditated style with about the same degree of accuracy that Dreiser displays in his grammar...
...Basil Zaharoff at his wife's death. It appears that for 36 hours he allowed no word of it to be announced. When the funeral was held at the Church of St. Charles, Monte Carlo, he hobbled in through a side door, "gasping, broken, twitching, scarcely able to walk in his gout slippers...
...else the alumni would not have been able to keep the ball rolling at such a number of revolutions per minute for two months. Even though no one has referred to it by name yet, the moth-eaten specter of Harvard indifference may have begun again to walk abroad and clank its chain. It is not the first time that even a suspicion that the worthy spook is about again has set people by the cars...
...leap which bettered by one half inch the mark previously set by Jones, the Crimson jumper. Probably the most spectacular per- formance, with the exception of Kane's classic in the relay, was Watters' race in the 1000. The University middle distance star was almost too sick to walk just before the race. He overcame a poor start, and fought every step of the way to shoulder ahead of a Cornell runner on the last turn and finish behind the winning Haggerty...
Having adjusted my mind so early in the morning to one big course and one introductory lecture, I can do little better than to walk down to the Geological Lecture Room at 10 to hear Professor parker in another. Biology I has been reversed this year, so that zoology follows the other sciences which make up that comprehensive course. Professor parker will discuss the natural history of the higher animals, having treated that of the lower animals last week...