Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone among all the Eastern colleges, has no such customs. Many upper classmen and even freshmen regret it, while graduate students from other institutions maintain that Harvard undergraduates never experience what they commonly term "college life". The criticism is well founded; certainly that kind of college life is conspicuously absent; it runs counter to a fundamental principle of the University...
...mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion more completely than such a gigantic instrument would reveal the face of our mysterious relative. No sewing circle, tearing asunder some absent member, can compare with our astronomical gossips, gathered round observatory table, as they gloat over ever wrinkle and mole which the telescope reveals. What wonder, therefore, that the fear-stricken orb hangs back, refusing to shine down the mine shaft before...
...coughs and sneezes to which he is subjected all winter, and how hard it is for us to hear all he has to say; not to mention the danger of ourselves catching the colds. It would be disappointing, of course, to have a cold and be compelled to absent ourselves from a morning appointment. "But there is where the gospel of thinking of others should be practiced...
...College rank list, showing the academic standing of every upper-classman in College on the basis of last year's work (with the exception of men who failed of promotion last June or were absent from their final examinations), was made public last night...
...reception, although implying a welcome, has an air of formality that hardly suits with the meeting for 1925 this evening, which is nothing more than an opportunity to get acquainted. Few will be scared off because of the ominous sound of a word; unfortunately most of those who are absent will feel that they can manage without getting acquainted with Harvard,--a much sadder state of mind. Men of 1925, tonight you are officially welcomed; for the first time you will meet as a class--the largest in the history of the University; for the first time you will hear...