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...great deal has been written about the dearth of the "snap course," and the fact that college today is not what it used to be in the way of three parts fun to one part work. If true, it is fortunate for the future of education here that his ancient inordinate proportion has been broken down. The "fun" is a consideration necessary only in such a degree as to give a student proper mental and physical balance. But the President saw more than "fun" in extracurricular activity. He is evidently aware of the possible value of such work not only...
...Mooney with a clock in the background showing that he was over a mile from the explosion when it occurred. But after Governor William Dennison Stephens was induced by Woodrow Wilson to commute Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment, four California Governors reopened the case only to snap it shut again...
...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...
...somewhat intangible nature, but nevertheless of great value. It can, first of all, start them thinking seriously and correctly about a choice of career. Because of the complexities of a vocational decision as well as its importance toward a productive and happy life, it requires, not merely a snap judgment in the senior year when the student has other worries and problems besetting him, but recurrent consideration on spare Sunday afternoons and off evenings throughout all the college years. Yet most students are prone to procrastinate on such matters unless impelled by objective and sympathetic advice such as the Placement...
...center Tim Russell snap the ball on these occasions? For two reasons, one, the ethical that the shift is not designed to throw the other team offside (as many people think) the other, the practical, that the enemy line-men generally are draped all over...