Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand men of Harvard will be denied the pleasure of seeing the Purdue band in action at the encounter in the Stadium today. One hundred and twenty-five men of Purdue, comprising the membership of the band, were unable to secure the necessary permission of the Board of Trustees to make the trip from Indiana to Cambridge...
With the financial road made smooth for the eastward anabasis, the Board of Trustees of the college raised a forbidding three fingers. Unwillingness of the authorities to allow the bandsmen to miss four days of classes cancelled the Pullman reservations, and the only music in the Stadium will be partisan to the Crimson...
...half of the present Freshman class. Whereas formerly the only method of escape from the elementary and irritating demands of this subject was through anticipatory examinations given before the opening of college--examinations neither widely advertised nor understood a grade of 70 per cent or higher in College Board English examinations now permits exemption. The result is that all those taking the course at present may be said to be in need of its services and those whose entrance papers have proven their ability are at liberty to proceed with work of more advanced nature...
...yesterday by the English Department. This large increase in those anticipating the course is due to the innovation, announced last spring by Professor Bliss Perry, in charge of the course at that time, which allowed those men who received grades of 70 per cent or higher in their College Board English examinations exemption from English...
...reef that was once visible has not been wholly blasted away. It is merely submerged, and even an upperclassman can easily be wrecked on its unseen ledges. For deep in the "Rules and Regulations of College Studies" is tucked the innocent little statement that the Administrative Board can put a student on probation at any time "in exceptional circumstances." Failure at November does not automatically make an upperclassman, as it does a Freshman, a subject of disciplinary action: but the bad failures at November are inappropriately called "exceptional," and retribution follows. Often it comes as a surprise. The Sophomore...