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Word: commoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps no one would contend that the entertainment provided at the Freshman smokers should be of a super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1919 Entertainment Criticised. | 3/22/1916 | See Source »

Perhaps the common attitude toward aviation as merely a dangerous pastime has arisen through the backward policy of the United States army and navy in training so few aviators and in training them in poorly constructed machines, so that the number of accidents has been unusually high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN AERO CORPS. | 3/20/1916 | See Source »

...Erasmus. This work was printed in 1538. There is also an original copy of the King James Version of 1611, known as the Authorized Version, which has probably the greatest interest for people of today, since it is a first edition of the Bible which is now in common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interesting Bible Collection Now on Exhibition at Widener | 3/20/1916 | See Source »

...Modern Language Conference. "George Eliot and Germany." Mr. F. S. Cawley.--"Description in Grillparzer's Dramas." Mr. H. H. Stevens. Common Room, Conant Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Calendar | 3/18/1916 | See Source »

...Graduate Cup for the winner of the Interdormitory Hockey series has been engraved and will be placed in the Common Room at Smith Halls this afternoon or Monday. This trophy will be competed for annually and will remain as the property of the dormitory winning it for one year. The cup, given by a large number of graduates, will take the place of the individual cups which were last year awarded to the members of the winning team. The cup is made of silver, and is about ten inches high. The names of the players and manager of this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERDORMITORY HOCKEY SEASON GREAT SUCCESS | 3/18/1916 | See Source »

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