Word: around
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...During the early part of May a tournament will be held for the doubles and singles championship of the College, open to all members of the three upper classes. The annual Harvard Interscholastic Tennis Tournament will be held at Cambridge on Saturday, May 26. All schools in and around Boston are invited to enter this tournament...
Both squads spent the day in training and practice. After a snappy half hour's broad-sword drill with hockey sticks, the CRIMSON players spent the rest of the time in work on the dummies. The Lampoon team devoted the entire afternoon to a jog from their building around Sever and back...
Slowly but steadily the moderate, intellectually balanced undergraduates are rallying around the standard of intelligent preparedness. The last day of the enrolment drive is here. The heavy guns and the lighter artillery have shelled the enemy's entrenchments for an entire week with countless rounds of written and verbal exhortation. Since the ground in front of Hill No. 1200 has been well prepared, today's final charge ough to be a triumphant rush...
...from and much keener competition for places on the team, can always put in a substitute who is nearly as capable as the regular whose place he takes. Even if the small college players are not injured, they are pretty well exhausted by the time the last quarter comes around and several fresh substitutes are often enough to batter their defence...
England, on the other hand, has established an effective blockade. She has not filled the North Sea with a host of commerce raiders (which is what the submarines are) but has drawn a cordon around Germany's ports. And haying established a real blockade England can, under international law, refuse to allow neutrals to trade with Germany. England has at times overstepped her rights but American pocketbooks, not American lives, have suffered. America may be a land of dollar-worshippers, but there is a finer sense left in us yet which for once has made us look beyond our purses...