Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletic authorities at Brown University have come forward with a plan whose execution in the next few weeks will put into the field of intramural competition lightweight football teams similar in their function to the lightweight crews that take to the water in the spring. The plan sets 155 pounds as the line of demarcation; all men above and all below this limit will form separate squads from which class elevens will be chosen...
Inescapable is the fact that students are not alumni, that their conception of their alma mater is far from what is will be when they come back for their twenty, fifth. Anyone who has occasion to talk over Harvard matters with a group of old grads will testify to the difficulty of bringing the discussion to considerations of discernible importance. And the alumni are no doubt as baffled to understand the lack of sympathy with which they are met by those who are living the best years of their lives...
...Faculty has been divided into six groups, each of which will be especially invited to one tea. This arrangement makes it possible for students to know who will be present on specific days, so that they may come to the Teas when there are members of the Faculty there whom they wish to meet...
Courses in which more or less continuous attendance is required for real benefit to the listener, under which category come most of the sciences, ordinarily cannot attract the transitory attention of the Vagabond. One exception that has managed to attract his wandering steps for several successive times is the course being given by Professor Hurlbut on English Literature of the first half of the XVIII century. It comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 in Emerson J, and he passes on the word with confidence others will find their way there...
...Fortitude, mein Frau, fortitude", said the husband tenderly embrasing her, and ignoring the trenchant sobs of his children, which now rend the air with renewed vigor. "Suffer we must for the cause of education, so long as Imbecilic editors control its destinies. Soon will come a change, and the latent craving of youth for knowledge will once more be aroused in spite of those who would stifle this yearning forever...