Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with coal-dust, scampered. Up long, inclined shafts they crawled, their beady eyes blinking in the light. Not long before, the miners, their faces smudged a ghastly grey, had straggled wearily up the shafts. The soft coal strike began in the central competitive area, including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and in the adjoining states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma...
...from other colleges and universities all over the country. This, with the Law School has come to be a truly national character. And Harvard College is progressing in the same direction, under the stimulus of the "higher seventh" entrance method, a system especially calculated to attract men from western and southern high schools...
...first structure was probably situated in the Yard about where Gray's Hall now stands, and probably faced to the south towards what is now Massachusetts Avenue. The kitchen and buttery and the Senior Fellows' study were on the ground floor at the western end. The eastern end was given over to chambers within which small studies, about six feet square, were partitioned off. Each student had a study of his own, but the chambers were common. Between the chambers and the kitchen was the hall, entrance to which was through a projecting turret in the front of the building...
...spring meets. This year, instead of having the activities last over several days, it is expected to conclude the meet in one afternoon of intense field events. An innovation, also, this year, will be the relay race that will conclude the meet. This, it was announced, is characteristic of Western colleges, but has never characterized the East. It is expected that this relay race, in which class and department teams may compete, will be a feature...
...wisdom by protecting itself from too much infiltration. . . . The trouble with the melting-pot is that the grease comes to the top. . . . When we consider the interval separating Pasteur from the monkey, it seems to me the Negro has traveled a long distance in his short contact with Western civilization. Next year I am going to Africa to study the ancestors of these Western Negroes. ... I confess I have been rather shocked at some things I have seen in your theatres and cinemas. In An American Tragedy and even in What Price Glory there is a literal, physical portrayal...