Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in the Journal of the National Education Association appeared "A Prayer for Teachers," by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, onetime (1921-25) Editor of Century Magazine. Acutely aware of teacher failings, in part he prayed...
...Last week The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily) aroused by past indignities to chaperons, plumping for abolition of chaperons, editorialized: "Many of us are unwilling to ask our mothers, or anyone we respect, to bear the brunt of universal disregard, and even the shade of contempt which cannot but arise from the office of chaperon as it exists at present...
...Allahabad last week thousands of pilgrims had assembled to watch the great procession of the feasts of Kumbh Mela. To the shrill squealing of oboes, the thumping of drums, gaily bedizened camels, horses and elephants swayed solemnly down the streets. In the midst of the procession a nervous, rat-eyed elephant suddenly ran amok, sought to bury its stumpy, gold banded tusks in the rear of the elephant ahead...
...inherited a very respectable grocery business in Bury St. Edmunds (can you ask what country?). But he has been through the War, has no family left, and craves the quiet contemplation of the countryside. He buys a cottage in a nearby village, intending to use it as a week-end retreat; soon he is spending most of his time there. The life suits him, he is accepted by the villagers, becomes a familiar figure at the pub, goes into partnership with Farmer Kindred. His housekeeper falls in love with him, but he is too busy becoming a farmer to notice...
Handicapped by the absence of Captain E. T. Gerry '31, who is ineligible for play, and mounted on strange ponies, the Crimson mallet men went down to their third straight defeat, while the Army, embittered by last week's defeat at the hands of Yale avenged its closely contested loss to Harvard of last year. When the West Pointers invade Harvard next week, the Crimson team will have a chance to retrieve its loss. ARMY HARVARD Wing, Cusack, Thinnes, No. 1 No. 1, Cooke Brandt, Rodgers, Anderson, No. 2 No. 2, Kimball, Luton Haskell, Beebe, Grunert...