Word: appearance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oxford only the Dons, or college officers, are permitted to walk on the grass. At Harvard the "Dons" appear to be the only persons to pursue the paths. Everyone else, led on by that delightful abandon which accompanies the approach of the merry Maytime, not only ambles on the grassy edges of the lawn, but, on the way to Memorial Hall, ventures occasionally into pastures new. The result in the latter case is a fairly obvious suggestion that the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings establish a new and convenient path. This suggestion will, doubtless, be acted upon...
...following quotation from the editorial column of the New York Evening Post is part of an article by President Fitch on "Religious Life at Harvard." "The first and universal characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate," he finds, "is a dread of seeming to appear better than he is." As a consequence, "he often appears worse than he is, lest you should think him to be what he is not. Prayer meetings repel him, and yet the daily morning service in Application Chapel is attended by one hundred of the fifteen hundred who could be expected to attend it. In what ordinary...
Trials for the University tennis team will begin on Jarvis Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Men who fail to appear within a half hour of that time will be defaulted. Courts will be reserved for all matches, but must be paid for as usual...
...second act is in Hugglesland, near the North Pole. Upon the arrival of Bixby and his impecunious friend Snaffles, the strikers are invited to seize him and are about to throw him to the polar bears. Higdig, however, arrives at the right moment. Gloriana and Chalkstones, now married, appear, and everything turns out all right. Bixby becoming engaged to Anne Higdig who has been doing settlement work among the Eskimos...
...note that the new Rank List, instead of being arranged by subjects, will be arranged by names of individuals in alphabetical order. Under the name of each man will appear the subjects in which he has attained honor grades, with the mark he has received in each. This seems to us an improvement over the present system. The pamphlet is primarily intended for the perusal of parents and others vitally interested in their sons' or friends' progress; and for such it will be more easily consulted in its new form. It will not be so convenient, however, for those...