Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...University quintet which opposes the Clark University five this evening will be greatly weakened by the loss of acting-Captain J. R. Tolbert '23, who is out of the game because of an infected foot. In a preliminary practice game starting at eight o'clock, the Freshman team will face the Business School five. The University game will commence at 8.45 o'clock and there will be no admission charged...
...wander. Let us return to prose and confess at once that "My Uncle Henry," with his "thin, pale face and faded blue eyes," his immaculately bald head and his "quick, fussy gestures," plays fast and loose not only with his nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward...
...undergraduate manager is of material assistance to him in meeting the new situation in which he finds himself. Though his experience has been on a relatively small scale, nevertheless there is a good deal of similarity between these problems and those of larger magnitude that he will face in after life. Even though a candidate may not finally win election at the end of the competition, he has gained much and lost nothing by the experiment...
...although it had fallen short of the $2,800,000 mark which had been set. This campaign, which lasted only four weeks, resulted in adding 2000 formerly non-subscribing alumni to the Endowment Fund roster and in the receipt of an additional million dollars. This was achieved in the face of adverse financial conditions both at home and abroad, and without the incentive of the initial effort of last year...
...threshold, and estranged the Metropolitan press by singing football songs on a New York ferry-boat. But this is not all. "Cornell is and always has been essentially not only a man's but a he-man's' school." If something is not done at once "Cornell will face an overthrow." That's the real danger an overthrow...