Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split infinitive. He was, in brief, eminently a man of common sense...
...hold their own ideas in so far as they do no harm to the regulations of the Faculty and the name of Harvard College. For this reason the Union is invaluable as a place where they may hear whomever they wish to hear, may hold meetings on a common footing, and debate on whatever questions they may choose...
Interdormitory hockey will begin today when meetings of all candidates for the teams will be held in the Common Room of Smith Halls at 1.30 o'clock. Practice will begin immediately after the meeting...
...Modern Language Conference. "A Definition of the Lyric, and Related Matters." Dr. C. E. Whitmore. Conant Common Room...
...close approach to the kernel of the matter is contained in a statement of President Lowell's that "Culture . . . does not mean the possession of a body of knowledge common to all educated men, for there is no such thing today. It denotes rather an attitude of mind than a specific amount of information...