Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established with the intent that one day it would completely do away with all the skull-duggery in the Square. Contact was established with parents and with prep schools in order that Freshmen might be warned away from wolves and vipers and their ilk. Freshmen were required to hand in their History I notes. There were other things which made sense only in the light of the new attitude on tutoring schools...
...test of the comprehension of material, and its method is to require original thought based on the material, or to require a variety of interpretations of the material. Tutoring schools can't help here, because all they can do is pound home a few dozen essential facts, and perhaps hand down a two-bit stock interpretation of these facts. If the exam questions involve looking at the matter in a different context or from an unexpected angle, the tutored scholar is caught flatfooted...
...evening was between Lowell and Leverett, which struggled until the last minute, when a goal by Bill Daughaday gave the victory to Leverett 4 to 3. Lowell was very handicapped by the fact that only nine of its squad were able to play. Leverett, on the other hand, had more than a full line in reserve...
...Whiskey Trail, Windy Range, etc.) and whose verse was once reprinted in the old Literary Digest. There Were No Heroes, which he subtitles "A Personal Record of a Man's Beginning," is unlike anything he ever tried before. It is too bad that he did not turn his hand to such serious writing decades...
...them left lice -or a river baptism relieved the monotony: "As the women waded into the river, gasping with every breath, their long wrappers floated about their legs. Brother Jim, mindful of their virtue, would stoop and shove the dry fabric down, holding fast to the lady with one hand, and shove and shove until the robe had become wet enough to sink of its own weight...