Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is too bad--especially since Shakespeare probably said to himself: "By the jolly Eliza, here is a play, at last, but where can I get an actor? Ah--I must write some directions." And so he told how to trip it on the tongue, and how to avoid sawing the air too much, or tearing a passion to tatters...
...annual fall tournament, the third round of which will be completed by tomorrow night, all players are requested to write the point scores of their games on the draw card now posted at the Squash Courts, since otherwise it is impossible for others to know how close the matches were...
...past of the Middle Ages, when the upstart poet Dante Alighieri began to write serious verse in the "vulgar tongue", and his work was accepted by scholastic Europe, a new precedent was established. It took six centuries for that precedent to make its influence dominant, and not until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...
...only change is one of option. Now the undergraduate is not forced upon his own company. He may be famous in Cambridge, or in Boston, and later write articles of his own on "the good old days". Or he may find his interest and his pleasure in books and the well known background, as was "necessary" in the past. Whichever is his choice the sole difference is that now it can be carried farther...
This system is not employed in the election of the student council member. The elector, in voting for a candidate for that office, should write down only his first choice...