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Dunster's first task was to get the first College building completed. Eaton, the "schoolmaster", just removed for his obvious unfitness to conduct a college, had got the frame erected--unfortunately of green timber which opened up in the first cold snap. Dunster got the floors and roof laid, partitions erected, the building finished, and furniture procured. He had the satisfaction of bringing all the students into residence, in September, 1642, and presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been...
Revenge. Dolores Del Rio can stamp her foot, toss her head, show her teeth, snap her fingers in a way that makes you look at her; still more, she can twitch her eyebrow.* Sometimes it is one eyebrow, sometimes the other. Like those lads who, in school, have awed companions by a strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift...
...personal column, Snap Shots, Editor Bellah said...
...introduction into the system of examinations for degree of identification of slides, even of monuments, is insurance against a too academic consideration of a mass of material. Anyone who has sat in a darkened room and tried his wits at snap judgments on a series of pictures appreciates the intensive training necessary for any kind of success. The gain to concentrators in the Fine Arts should be that which comes from expansion without diffusion...
When Ver Wiebe was withdrawn, Kennard walked on the field along that line and, when at the right distance made the signal to the Harvard center to snap the ball, the ball was passed and the goal kicked before the Yale players, and almost before the Harvard men grasped the true significance of the situation. Kennard's success crowned perhaps the most persistent training on one feature of the game ever gone through by an individual, for he had practiced drop-kicking for months until he had the trick worked into a fine...