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There is a deep concern that the undergraduate years may become a transitory stop-gap, a short breather between secondary school and graduate education. Within such a concept, College education would wither; the contribution would deteriorate, and the meaning of an A.B. degree would diminish...
...Collapses!" groaned tired Julie. She folded onto a chair for a breather...
...varsity has disposed of all its opposition with great ease--save for Navy and Princeton matches on the team's disastrous trip earlier this month--and should handle Amherst with little difficulty, It will, however, be the varsity's last breather of the year, for the next two weekends will be the roughest ones of the season, with the intercollegiates on March 8-9 being the Crimson's only opportunity to avenge its two previous setbacks...
...midnight in 1862 General Charles C. Gilbert, a Regular Army man, reined in his horse and chewed out a captain of the loth Indiana volunteers who were sprawled along a Kentucky road taking a breather. Why, demanded Gilbert, didn't the captain have the regiment stand at attention as the corps commander rode by? Angrily, the colonel of the regiment replied that his men had been marching night and day for a week in an attempt to beat Bragg's Confederates to Louisville, and he "would not hold a dress parade at midnight for any damned fool living...
Pennsylvania should provide the last breather for the varsity wrestlers this afternoon before they enter the toughest phase of their schedule, meets against Springfield, Princeton, Brown, and Yale. Penn has won only one of its eight matches, losing the rest by margins of from 14 to 34 points. The match will begin at 2 p.m., on the I.A.B. mats...