Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...floor space in the city and could be used for many purposes. Unless the Naval authorities take some action it would cost the city $80,000 which is more than it is willing to pay. It is the city's belief that it deserves me reward for lending the Common to the Navy as a building site without charge...
...preparations for "Crowns and Clowns" is but another instance of the almost unbelievable lack of ordinary foresight for which Soviet supporters are traditionally famous. Frankly, we have been perhaps somewhat diffident when the delights of Bolshevism have been described to us. The whole thing seems too tame, too common-place for words. The frantic mobs in the streets of Moscow cannot compare to the lunch hour at Jimmie's. The pools of blood in the public squares at Patrograd are nothing to one familiar with Harvard Square slush. Even the wildest extremes of Bolshevik art fail to stir those...
...mass meeting of the Freshman class will be held in the Gore Hall Common Room on the evening of April 10 to consider the plans for the Jubilee and to practice singing. Dr. Davison will be there to address the meeting and to lead the singing. This will be the first meeting of the class in regard to this annual affair, and is a very important one inasmuch as the plans for the Jubilee, the one social event of the class before the Junior year, will be explained...
...University buildings, including Pierce Hall, formerly the Engineering building, Perkins Hall, Walter Hastings Hall, the Hemenway Gymnasium, and Memorial Hall have been taken over by the school, but were inadequate to accommodate the increased enrollment. Last Fall it was necessary to erect temporary wooden barracks on the Common to provide room for this growth, but since the close of the war, the enrollment has fallen off steadily...
...Corporation also voted to have a common Freshman year for the college and the Sheffield Scientific School, with a separate dean and faculty; to appoint a provost and dean of students who shall be concerned with morale and with student relations; and to transfer Latin from the group of required to elective subjects for admission to the college...