Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan of increasing the use of the Straus Common Room also places it at the disposal of the students in the following dormitories of the South end of the Yard, Grays, Matthews, Straus, Weld, and Massachusetts...
...Freshman Common Rooms coffee will be served during the hours mentioned. Periodicals, magazines, and books will be put in the Straus Common Room, and in order to create a more cheerful atmosphere a log fire will be kept burning during the evening hours...
...order to encourage the use of the University's dormitory Common Rooms, several important changes will be made in the one in Straus Hall. It was announced last night by Mathew Luce '91, Regent of the University. The plan is to operate this room in a manner some-what similar to the system instituted in the Freshman Common Rooms...
...remembered that when the old Lawrence Scientific School was remodeled it was organized as a Graduate School, but an inconsistency appeared between this and the provision in the will of Gordon McKay to the effect that students should be admitted who had only the education that the common schools afford. After the decision of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth had disallowed the combination with the Massachusetts institute of Technology, the School of Engineering was again reorganized, this time for both undergraduate and graduate work, and it is perhaps in the latter that the School can render its most valuable...
...believe. There is no doubt that frankness has its virtues, and no one would care particularly to bring back the old days when there were unmentionables galore, "worse than death's," and "you mean-'s". On the other hand, there is something to be said for the common, or garden variety, of politeness. It used to be said that a woman could travel from one end of this country to the other without meeting with discourtesy or insult--now it appears, even Mr. Auburn Street is not wholly safe. No one perhaps wants to go back to the days...