Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First College appointment will be Freshman football practice at 8 o'clock on Thursday, September 23. All men who arrive earlier can draw equipment the day before. Dormitories may be occupied as early as September 16. Registration begins at 10 o'clock the morning of September 23 and closes at 5 o'clock in the afternoon...
...evening at 6:30 o'clock there is a buffet supper for Freshmen at the Union and a reception afterwards for the Class. Saturday the entire Class must convene in New Lecture Hall for an academic meeting Conferences with Faculty Advisers will be held immediately folowing. That night speakers will address Freshman in the Union, and on Saturday, Phillips Brooks House holds its annual tea of welcome
...exercise he has taken off 44 Ib. in three months, has got down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck muscles on a rowing machine, subjects the Beck posterior to an electric belt...
...last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped glass 2½ ft. high) which custom says he must fill and pass round & round & round...
...Redding Ridge Plan, Headmaster Bonner says: "I am simply advocating that the system under which a boy is asked to do his work shall not be as irrational as a system which would require of an adult that he be a lawyer from nine to ten o'clock, a doctor from ten to eleven, a stock broker from eleven to twelve, and an author from twelve to one. It is my unalterable conviction that under such a system all but the rarest adult would be foredoomed to failure in all capacities, and do his best work in none...