Word: abandoning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that the Musical Clubs were forced at the last minute to abandon their already completed plans for an extensive trip during the Christmas vacation is most unfortunate both for the Clubs themselves and for the alumni in those localities which the schedule included. Conditions over which there was no control made it unwise to give concerts in certain cities, and the loss of these concerts and the impossibility of making other arrangements compelled the Clubs to abandon their plans. Possibly some of the places included in the Christmas itinerary can be visited in April. In any case, there should...
...also voted to abandon the distinction between elementary and advanced history. Modern European history, including English (as defined in the report of the Committee of Five of the American Historical Association) will be accepted as an additional unit of history for admission to College, it being understood that it may not be counted by candidates who have already received credit for Mediaeval and Modern History or for English History...
...Going to any college to be educated simply as a student does not give one the right to be assessed and registered there unless there exist the two things I have stated and emphasized--to wit, that he actually went there to make his residence with the intention to abandon the residence from which he came, to adopt this as his residence not merely for the definite time of his college course, four years, but an indefinite time with that interest to make it his residence...
...other college, "to be educated simply as a student does not give one the right to be assessed and registered there unless there exist the two things I have stated and emphasized--to wit, that he actually went there to make his residence with the intent to abandon the residence from which he came, to adopt this as his residence not merely for the definite time of his college course, four years, but an indefinite time with that interest to make it his residence...
Tomorrow the bars of propriety will be lowered, staid looks, flowing gowns and flashing buttons laid aside, and the Senior class, filled with a wild abandon, their loins girt up with overalls, will go forth to picnic. For four years the main endeavor of each man has been the acquisition of knowledge. Tomorrow the chief pursuit will be pleasure. For four years the class has gathered for its smokers and dinners. Tomorrow it will gather for the last occasion of merriment, the last festival and carnival of jollity, during the days of undergraduate enrolment in the University. Let 1916 rally...