Word: homeward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fraternity houses and dorms and rooming houses harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-glimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster...
After we poor infantrymen have run around the field until exhausted, the artillerymen will trot calmly homeward. It looks like another Yale victory...
...more will the Harvard student homeward bound with his bulging suitcase, his rattling golf sticks, his tennis racket, and proverbial musical instrument, be seen tearing frantically through the human swarm on Summer street. No more will he have to perform superhuman feats of line-plunging, of long distance running, of athletic leaping over intervening horses, wagons, and automobiles, only to arrive as the last car of his train rolls majestically from the South Station. The great work is complete at last; science is vindicated. The oldest Senior who said gloomily that it would never be finished is a prophet without...
...mistress. There is an especially strong scene at the end of the third act, when Geoffrey tells Miriam of his decision to leave her. The force of this scene and of the whole play, is marred by the following act which, in an absurdly improbable way, sends the audience homeward in a reasonably happy state of mind...
...meet the Philadelphia Cricket Club. On Wednesday it will go to Annapolis to play the Naval Academy. A game with the Chevy Chase Club at Washington is scheduled for Thursday, and on Friday the team will play the Norfolk Country Club at Norfolk, Va. The team will then start homeward, meeting the Baltimore Country Club at Baltimore, for the last match on Saturday, April...