Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to the mass meeting, which will be held in Tremont Temple on the evening of October 21, there is to be during the day a demonstration of practical field work on Boston Common, along the lines of what was done during the recent Governor's Conference. Another interesting and instructive feature will be a demonstration of the lack of preparedness in the form of an exhibit which may become permanent and which will show in concrete form how lacking this nation is in preparedness to defend itself in case of attack by another nation...
...members of the association also intend buying their supplies from a common stock which will then be distributed to the various papers. Furthermore offices are to be opened in New York and agents will be employed to obtain blanket advertising for all the papers from concerns which advertise nationally. Branch offices are later to be established in San Francisco and Chicago, and other points in the West which will act as distributing centres...
...schedule of the University football team has three games in common with that of the Yale eleven, these being with Virginia, Brown and Princeton. The University team plays Virginia on October 16, two weeks later than Yale. The latter plays Brown the week before the Harvard-Brown game, while Princeton meets the University and Yale elevens in the usual orders. Yale is the only opponent common to both the University and Princeton teams, while Cornell meets none of the same teams...
...matter of common knowledge that the middleman's profits are responsible for the high cost of living. Here is a chance to apply a college education to practical purposes and solve at one and the same time the Seniors' problem, the Freshmen's problem, and the problem of the middleman. The Student Council should each year appoint a day on which Seniors and Freshmen should assemble in the Yard, whereupon mahogany desks and brass bedsteads might start upon another cycle to the mutual benefit of erstwhile and henceforth owners...
...with the founding of the College, Commencement Day stands well among the first. In the olden times that day was celebrated as a public holiday on which the Governor came in state from Boston and the people for miles around thronged in as to a country fair. Drunkenness was common, and as early as 1693 there were symptoms that Commencement Day was becoming a period of disturbing festivity. Accordingly in that year the Corporation voted certain restrictions and their action, coupled with the activity of President Quincy at the beginning of the 19th century contributed greatly to the removal...