Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubt if there is a man in Harvard who would attempt to break into the middle of a line instead of taking up his position at the end, but from some lack of moral sense, few seemed to hesitate to hand their money to friends near the box-office who apparently stood a better chance of getting tickets. So far as the effect on those behind goes, the result is the same in either case. It is obviously unfair, and to prevent the recurrence of such a practice I suuggest that the sales of "rush" seats at the coming concerts...
...football team, after two days spent in the hardest kind of scrimmaging against the second team, the Freshmen, and the Canadians was given light practice yesterday afternoon. The line-men, however, had a fairly stiff drill in offensive tactics, the men lining up against each other and attempting to break through. Pennock, who took part in this work, twisted his bad knee just at the end of the session. Although he was able to walk later in the afternoon it is not likely that he will play in the Pennsylvania State game. Logan ran through signals with the team...
...these groups, which ought speedily to have a genuine academic atmosphere, with their fine lawns, their flower-beds, and their new-planted ivy; but because of the opportunity to meet and know all sorts and conditions of men from all quarters of the United States, and daily to break bread with them...
...next Wednesday. The men have been working out at Toronto for the past few days but will endeavor to do their final conditioning on the Stadium track. The team stopped off for a day at Detroit on its way east in order to give the men a chance to break the monotony of the trip by working out there. The Californians expressed themselves as well satisfied with the Toronto track but objected to the condition of the jumping pits and the field for the hammer-throw...
...Sciences. In cases of sudden or temporary hardship, loans in small amounts and for short periods are frequently needed to enable students to get the best advantage of the year of study upon which they have embarked. Men of capacity and ambition are from time to time obliged to break off their studies in the course of the year, or to spend many hours of valuable time in supporting themselves by work which is poorly remunerated and is accompanied by no corresponding intellectual advantage to them. Some cases of urgent necessity are met each year by loans from the Scholarship...