Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adjoining column is worthy of comment because it represents what may be termed without giving offense the Tutoring School State of Mind. Its line of reasoning is similar to the mental process by which a small boy, seeing an inviting green apple dangling before him on somebody else's tree, considers that it is there to be eaten, that if he does not eat it there is a good chance it will fall to the ground and spoil, and ends by convincing himself that in taking the apple he has only made the most of his opportunities and done...
...Department of Physical Education has announced that the Hemenway Gymnasium, the University Squash Courts Building, the Big Tree Swimming Pool, and the Freshman Athletic Building will be open at the regular hours during the mid-year examination period It was also announced that the prescribed exercise for Freshman will be discontinued during the mid-year period, but that the squash tournaments for the Law, Engineering, Business, and Graduate Schools will be continued...
...daily, except Sundays, Christmas day and New Year's day, during the Christmas recess: the Hemenway gymnasium and the University squash courts, from 9 A. M. to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, also from 2.30 till 6 o'clock on Sundays, and the Freshman gymnasium and the Big Tree swimming pool from 1.30 until 6 o'clock...
There followed a series of pretenders to the throne--men like the lesser Roman emperors who fill up the gaps in the annals. At last Beerbohm Tree, in the name of variety, appeared as a red-headed, red-bewhiskered Hamlet, but failed. With no ghost and no Ophelia it is conceivable that a sandy lunatic might have been a great hit. Next the gentle Forbes-Robertson carried off the laurels with a kind of paradoxical, superplussed magnetism. Then, after Southern's admirable elocution and Walter Hampden's colloquialism -- which doesn't at all describe his acting--we come to Barrymore...
Although the Bowdoin game food next on the schedule, the coaching force devoted a large part of its energies to preparation for the Centre and Dartmouth games. Captain Buell and Owen were kept out of the line-up, which enabled the men from the pine-tree state to halt repeatedly the Crimson rushes. At the end of the first quarter Pfaffman sent a low kick just over the cross-bar for the first score, after three line plunges had failed to gain the required distance. Bowdoin made a strong bid to tie the score, but Smith's 44-yard attempt...