Word: account
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advantage over the unrhymed productions of Mr. B. P. Clark and Mr. Boyden. These gentlemen should realize that free verse is not an easy way out of the bondage of fixed metres, but requires an even finer ear for rhythm, and should compensate for the absence of regularity of account and rhyme by still subtler musical' effects. What they give us is rather vague prose, spoiled by inversions. Mr. Denison's "Sonnet" has a good tenth line spoiled by an unmetrical eleventh, and is somewhat over-weighted by the simile in the octave. In his "Night Song," Mr. Sanger...
...Freshman Red Book Board will hold a banquet at 6 o'clock this evening at the Hotel Thorndike. On account of the financial success achieved by the Red Book last spring, this is expected to be the largest dinner ever held by any Red Book Board. After dinner the meeting will adjourn to the Colonial Theatre, where the business manager has succeeded in getting the entire first two rows of the orchestra for the performance of Ziegfeld's Follies. Those who have not yet secured their tickets may do so at Westmorly 46 from H. H. Silliman...
...matches were scheduled yesterday on account of the soggy condition of the courts. Play in both singles and doubles will be resumed on Jarvis Field this afternoon...
...matches in the University Championship tennis tournaments scheduled for yesterday were postponed on account of the heavy rain and no matches will be played today. All games will be resumed on Jarvis Field tomorrow...
Although the price of chemicals and chemical apparatus has risen 25 per cent. on account of the war, the Department of Chemistry has decided to make no raise in the laboratory fees, but students are especially warned that breakage charges will be at least 25 per cent. higher than usual this year. This scarcity of material was realized to a certain degree last year, but this year its full extent is being felt, owing to the exhaustion of reserve supplies in this country...