Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wearing a crimson necktie and a blue band on his straw hat, the President, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Sons James & John and a party of friends, motored to Annapolis to watch the Adams Cup regatta from the bow of the launch of Rear Admiral Wilson Brown-his former naval aide, now superintendent of the Naval Academy. As a graduate of Harvard and the Navy Department, the President could be two-thirds sure of being on the winning side in every race. Sizzling comfortably in the hot sunshine, the party saw Harvard's freshman and varsity, Navy's junior...
...Harvard College. Students have come to Harvard--or at least should have come to Harvard--primarily to be students, and the Student Council should consider it its main duty to see that they are aided in every way as students. Perhaps its most important function is that of watch-dog on University educational policies, but certainly an important duty is to attempt to keep at a minimum the formalities of student government...
...remembered player of the name. Upon being assured that Conant was the bona fide president of Harvard, the better half of "Me and Paul" declared, "He is dead right, he's O.K.; there's a plenty of rich guys that shoot their kids off to college and then watch 'em fold up and get useless." Thoughtfully he added, "It's a pity, that's what it is, a pity...
There are many kinds of school spirit. Some people wear huge W's on their watch fobs" some go to all the football games, and even contribute a fullback or two; many more content themselves with getting drunk when the occasion demands. Mr. Pereles did none of these things...
...Annual International Jumping Frog Jubilee. For Calaveras County miners the jubilee, inspired by Mark Twain's fabulous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," is the sports event of the year. On Angels Camp's main street thronged 35,000 spectators, including overdressed cinema celebrities to watch the two-day classic. The rules: 1) three jumps to a frog, the total distance to count as official; 2) each frog might be shaken thoroughly to discover if he had been fed buckshot to hold him down...