Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good one. What they have done to Harvard as a community is only an example on the large scale of what they have done to every American family. The bisecting of the college preserve, the destruction of quiet by the roaring arteries of traffic, is an incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends to the belittlement of those gentler amenities, good talk and reading, has hit the American home just as acutely. If undergraduates are less in their rooms today...
Freshmen selecting crew as their fall sport will meet in Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock tonight where they will be addressed by the same speakers as at the University crew gathering. This sport is one of the most popular of fall activities necessary to fill the physical training requirements and it is hoped that as large a number of shells will be on the Charles River this year as in past seasons...
Fall crew will get away to a belated start tomorrow when Captain L. W. Dickey '30 addresses the assembled upperclass oarsmen in Newell Boathouse at 4 o'clock. The candidates for Freshman fall rowing will gather in Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock...
Remote Control. Effective plays may be fashioned about Love and Death and Vanity because these are common concern of the race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...
...Publishing words which "in their common acceptance" charged the plaintiff with fornication and adultery...