Word: classically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...buffet lunch will be-served for the visitors either at the Union or at some dining hall to be announced later. For amusement during the afternoon the graduates and sons will be able to obtain tickets in a specially reserved section for the annual I.C. 4A track and field classic...
...Francisco Stock Exchange Building, opened Jan. 4, is the pride of California financiers. A description of it by the Building Committee reads: "It expresses architecturally the purposes of the constitution.* Its classic colonnade, its symbolic sculpture, its lofty and spacious trading floor are character transmuted into form. Surrounded by towering office buildings it stands alone, withdrawn somewhat, from the street by a cordon of green lawn and foliage, a massive and enduring monument to the ideals of its founders and those who carry...
Playwright Robertson's melodrama follows the prevailing modes of theatrical violence; at times the stench of the underworld pervades his scenes, although he achieves not quite such horrid insinuations as those conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious...
...sport. Then, too, the Seniors on the squad have dreaded divisionals looming before them which come shortly after spring vacation. Another thing to be considered, at least from a spectator's point of view, is that another game would most probably be a dull anti-climax to Wednesday's classic struggle. Hardly any game, no matter if it would break the tie--and there is no assurance that it would--could measure up for sheer excitement and good hockey to that 2 to 2 deadlock...
...Evil is one of the oldest classics of human nature. It is usually taught by people morally illiterate and mentally corrupt, when it should be an important part of the education of youth, taught as a classic, carefully analyzed and defined with reference to preparing adolescent people for dealing intelligently rather than emotionally or weakly with instincts-not merely of the body but of the mind...