Word: affair
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...answer to a brief and concrete question, probably the entire University would welcome a discussion or presentation of the Boer affair. Whether we should take active steps towards making the University an irritant to English public opinion is an entirely different thing. Some of us have been under the impression that the University has gained in prestige, because it has suc- ceeded fairly well in abstaining from head-long plunges into political questions, and that it has lost when it has attempted to mix in such matters as the Venezuelan affair of a few years ago. It may be that...
...Classical Philology, and the success of the efforts to secure an adequate financial basis for this publication was entirely due to him. He laid the project before his classmates, and by his enthusiasm roused their interest to such a pitch that they determined to make it a class affair, with the result that the whole of the amount required came to the University as the gift of the Class of 1856. He also served for several years on the editorial committee of the Studies and was a frequent contributor...
There will be a double celebration of the football victory this evening at the Union and on Holmes Field. Extensive preparations are being made for the affair. Kanrich's Band has been secured for the occasion and there will be a torchlight parade, together with a bonfire and a display of fireworks...
Medical Examiner Swan, into whose charge the affair was put, said last night that the wheels of the engine crushed the lower part of his chest, causing internal injuries that produced almost instant death. He said further, that it was impossible as yet to state on whom the blame rests...
...action of the play takes place in Fleischer's barber shop where von Wildungen, with lathered face and half-shaved moustache, consummates his love affair with Elfrieds...