Word: happened
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that I agree entirely with the CRIMSON. Since College days I have seen much of the undergraduates both in a financial and social way, and I feel that their conversation is painfully deficient. The range of subjects usually is from athletics to girls, and if one of them should happen to talk on American or English politics the others would be amazed. It seems to me a vast improvement should be make...
Such is the editorial answer of the Yale News to its own question,--"How did it happen...
...observe, the members of the league do not bind themselves to accept the award, but only to present their case and hear the decision. Let us consider the probable effect in a concrete case. Take that of the controversy with England about Venezuela, and suppose, what did not happen, that feeling in the two countries had run dangerously high. If the league had consisted, besides these two nations, of France, Germany, Russia, and Japan, neither England nor the United States, however excited, would for a moment have thought of risking war with all the other powers. They would have done...
...special field is chemistry, whose need and probable ability lies in scientific German, is likely to be asked to read a description of the battle of Sadowa, or the retreat from Moscow. This means not only a wrong emphasis, but a decided and unfair advantage to the man who happens to draw something "in his line." Moreover, it frequently happens that the candidate is too nervous to do himself justice. Why does it so often happen that a man passes, without any intervening study, the examination which floored him a few months before? And as for the penalty of probation...
...smooth and even, without particular stars, rather suggesting stock company work in the individuality of the minor parts. Mrs. Tighe is the most natural and confident, and therefore the most convincing. Miss Feeley's restlessness in the first act may be due to the great speed with which things happen to her--she comes back from dinner almost before she starts--, for in the later acts she seems entirely at ease. Mr. Walker does well with a part which the author could make less difficult by deciding whether or not it is to be taken seriously; Mr. Manson...