Word: centering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones, who looked a hundred percent better in spring practice than he did last year when he started almost every game should win the center fight hands down there...
After all are seated (which, it is hoped, will be achieved by 10.30), the Chief Marshal, advancing to the center of the platform, will make the traditional request, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order"; and the Sheriff of Middlesex, rapping thrice on the platform with the scabbard of his sword, will say, "The meeting will be in order...
...college have been divided under the House Plan into two distinct periods. Harvard is perhaps unique among colleges in the extent to which the Freshman year is set apart as a unit. Besides living together in the Yard, the first-year men have their own eating and recreational center in the Union, now turned over to their exclusive use. In athletics there is a complete set-up of Freshman teams, while the intramural sports are organized on a dormitory basis corresponding to the inter-House program of the upper classes...
...many respects the Union, situated on Quiney Street just outside of the Yard, is the social center of first-year life. Under one roof are the dining hall, common rooms, game rooms, and two libraries, one containing a fine collection of books for general reading, the other books required in History 1 and Government 1, two of the larger Freshman courses. It is in the Union that most of the social events of the Freshman year take place: tea dances after one or more of the football games in the fall, smokers, with vaudeville or other entertainment, the Freshman Jubilee...
When the Houses went into operation the center of Harvard life for the upper-classmen shifted unmistakably from the Yard to the region beside the Charles. Five of the Houses, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop and Leverett, are grouped fairly close together in one section, while Dunster is located farther down the river and Adams on the old Gold Coast on Mt. Auburn Street. Between the Yard and the Houses, in the vicinity of Mt. Auburn Street, are located also the New Athletic Building, most of the clubs and the officers of the CRIMSON, Lampoon and Advocate...