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...custodial care, the game of checkers is a more or less dull affair, in which one should: 1) try to take two for one or three for two; 2) try to cement the opposing forces in such manner that one's opponent is physically unable to make a move (calomel and dynamite to the contrary, not withstanding), etc., etc. ad nauseam. Some of the innocents think that they should, regardless, set up a strong position in the centre, or that under no circumstances should they break their own king row. . . . DR. DONALD M. GILDERSLEEVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...approved of these plans and dormitory chairmen have volunteered in each hall. A. G. Hart '30, and Jackson Hurd '30 will organize the petitioning in the Smith Halls, W. B. Thurber '30 in Standish, W. T. Wetmore '30 in McKinlock, and T. F. Mason '30 in Gore. Although the move is starting in the Freshman Halls any member of the University is eligible to become a petitioner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plans for University Dining Hall Sanctioned by Lowell | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...true relation to the society of which he is part", and defined the primary object of a college education as the fitting of "each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hibben Stresses Obligations of Nations and Individuals | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

...First National Pictures' canvass for college men is a good move," said W. A. Williams '15 who is playing the leading roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas now being given at the Plymouth Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Expression of Impervious Indifference Is Meet for Hollywood--Williams Favors College Canvass | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils; the puffy lower lip; even separate hairs of the beard are drawn out, and the hair, loosely combed off the forehead, would wave gently if blown on. Then move away and see how these fine distinctions disappear in the solidity and rotundity of the head marked boldly by only the most conspicuous and characteristic forms of the features. Notice too the great mass of the body to which the delicate sheen of the velvet folds and the pattern of the brocaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prince | 4/25/1927 | See Source »