Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-glimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster...
...reasons why practice is especially essential this spring," said Coach Rollins at the meeting, "First, we want to get the new men in line and form some opinions about the material for next season. Second, after the lapse of athletics during the war, it is important to bring football back to mind again. Third, we will be able to give individual instruction to men this spring whom we will not have time to pay especial attention to next fall, and lastly, we want to start early on some of the formations which we shall use in the fall...
...reduced at any time, in case you feel that the premium is more than you can afford to pay. However, I strongly advise all men to keep up their full insurance policies. If you have made no payments since your discharge from the army, send in your back payments at once, before it is too late. Remember that you will surely want to be insured sooner or later, and do not let this opportunity which the Government is giving to every discharged soldier and sail or slip through your fingers. Full details concerning time and terms of conversion will...
...Rice is the only white man ever to reach the sources of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, and from his last South American expedition brought back the important ethnological collection now in Peabody Museum. He also succeeded in mapping practically the entire Amazon and the Rio Negro...
...reappearance of Hasty Pudding Spring Show posters in the Yard, after a lapse of three years, is one more indication that conditions at Cambridge are slowly swinging back to the normal plane of before the war days. It has been long since the curtain of the Pudding stage has creaked up on a much rouged and closely shaved chorus of pseudo-girls, and since basso-voiced heroines and sotto-voiced prompters have held an undergraduate audience thrilled by the unrehearsed actions of a Pudding cast. "Crowns and Clowns" will be a welcome visitor to the University...