Word: among
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Christmas vacation, lasting until the end of March. Meanwhile the best players of the squad will be formed into a regular Freshman team, but at all times men may either be moved up from the dormitory team or down from the class team. The dormitory teams will contest among themselves for the dormitory basketball title, to count in the All-Around Interdormitory series, and may also play teams made up of upperclassmen...
...first concert last evening in Sanders Theatre by the Harvard Glee Clug on their new basis of singing fine music in a thoroughly artistic way, among the many causes for satisfaction and mutual congratulation one aspect of the occasion was most striking--it "jumped into one's eyes," as the French say--namely, the fact that the undergraduate body was so conspicuous by its absence...
...theory conflicts in several points with many hitherto well-established physical laws. Among its revolutionary statements it maintains that light rays do not travel in an absolutely straight line and further that light is deflected when passing the sun. Einstein also claims that we are not living in a Euclidian space and that many geometric laws are false...
...plan of continuing rowing throughout the winter was originally devised for the Freshmen to satisfy their physical exercise requirements, but the new system has proved so popular among the upperclassmen that it has been enlarged to include all men who want the instruction. Many members of last year's Freshmen and University crews have been reporting regularly, and the interest shown in the present system will probably mean its permanent establishment here...
...smoke-screen and conciliatory barrage emanating from Berlin, German character has not much changed with defeat. This is partly due to the Teutonic mind which refused to believe that the Central Powers were crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...