Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stables are bare where once stood the proud steeds of an imperial prince. The glistening, silky backs that one time bore the heir to the British throne through many of the most brilliant hunts that the world has seen, are doomed to sigh under the weight of common people, unnoticed, ignored. The days of glory are passed and stark realism shatters the roseate glow of the skies of romance...
Alone, forsaken, denied even the publicity of a common murderer, these helpless beings must stink along through the sewers of life under the ban of public disgust. If only curiosity, interest, some attention could be drawn to them. Perhaps through the book--The gavel of the magistrate raps fiercely on the desk. Even in the eyes of the law she is pushed aside. A smile of satisfaction spreads over the phlegmatic features of smug, heartless mankind. Cruel humanity plods on, its head high, leaving its poor sisters by the wayside, alone, out of the limelight. Was ever an abnormality dismissed...
...Unity will come from one to three hundred young men living together in a large collegiate building, taking many of their meals in a common dining room, spending part of the evening
...House Plan will, of course, have a considerable effect on the upperclassmen's use of the Union. Dining halls in each House will take away for the undergraduate the importance of the Union's Dining Room; common rooms may supplant somewhat the social functions of the Living Room, the Reading Rooms, the Recreation Rooms. Still, there are quantities of men in the University unaffected by the House Plan. For the graduate students uncared for in dormitory dining halls, the Union is a sufficient substitute. For commuters, the Union offers its lounges and Dining Room. For the unHoused, who will, especially...
Tradition, sentiment, the hopes of the founder, all have their weight on the side of an independent and communal Union, and against an all-Freshman or a hybrid Freshman-upperclass-dining-common room scheme. Practicality is of far greater moment, and the need under the House Plan of such a general club as the Union now is, especially during the difficult initiation of the new, is self-evident...