Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this comes the very important problem of the food for the law school. Assuming that they come out strongly in favor of central eating place, the University will be forced to consider the financial possibilities of erecting a huge new dining system to satisfy the needs of the law students and all the other graduate students. The chances of an immediate undertaking in this direction are unfortunately remote. Therefore as a temporary expedient, it would seem much more practical to set up, instead of two distinct graduate eating organizations, one large all-inclusive society. For the time being it would...
...including a few law students and Radcliffe graduates) achieve tangible success in the organization of a cooperative eating society, than questionnaires were distributed among fourteen hundred members of the law school asking their opinion about a general eating center. Favorable early returns suggest that the whole issue will soon come to a head. If the law school demands an eating center, then either the newly hatched plan for graduate eating society will have to be greatly enlarged to include both the law school and the graduate schools or else the University will have to come across with a new dining...
Generosity also characterized the donations from the medical school. Over $300 has already been collected, and a committee headed by John Peters predicts that $2000 will yet come in. Proportionate amounts have been reported from all units of the university...
From the lyrical description of "Saltwater Farm," Coffin has turned to a portrayal of those Maine people who "still live by the skin of their teeth, on wind-pudding and small potatoes and few on a hill. They live by the weather and their wits. They come to sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic...
...existence into a state of mind where they commit crazy, tragic actions--Mary Orr, for example, who just "upped" and deserted her husband after twenty years, or the Island wife who jumped into the sea one fine day. It is hard for us to regard these abrupt acts, that come with so little outward warning, as normal. We cannot understand the simplicity of a Thomas King who blows the head off his powerful body after carefully feeding his cows. We make our suicides spectacular...