Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hunt.'' Then follows a farrago of inanities of personal description such as "once strong as an ox, now 69 and bald as a turtle," etc. and "No U. S. mustache is more famed than his. Once frowsy and walrusy, it is now smartly waxed." How, in the name of common sense does this latter connect up with or throw light upon his uniqueness? When the editor, or is it office boy? writes these biographical sketches does he not have available any significant data? Every time TIME has referred to this Grand Old Man of Arizona it has focused attention...
...game was revived in 1871, when students engaged in their contests outside the Yard, on the Cambridge Common. The resurrected football was for the first time governed by rules, tripping, striking, hacking, lurking or butting thereafter prohibited. The players were driven off the Common by an order of the City Fathers on petition of a few unsympathetic citizens of Cambridge, in May, 1873, at which time the game was transferred to Holmes Field, a rough, uneven place, at that time unused for anything. Goal posts were ereected at a cost...
...Pride 3L of the Edward Warren club won the first semi-final round of the Ames Competition of the Law school last night, defeating H. V. Colby 3L and D. A. Wieland '31 of the James Bryce Club. by decision of the judges. The case was one of common law marriage. The second semi-final round, the winners of which will meet last night's victors in the final court in January; takes place in Langdell Hall Center at 8 o'clock tonight...
...candidates for distinction and honors, a trend encouraging and significant. This gain is the sign of one of the nearing objectives in the Harvard academic system. The tendency may be taken as indicative of a desire on the part of undergraduates to take from College more than the common share would allot them. At any rate it suggests that more men yearly are striving, aided by tutorial conferences and the Reading Period, at least to sound the depths of learning...
...first semi-final arguments of the Ames Competition of the Law School will take place this evening at 8 O'clock when the representatives of the James Bryce club and the Edward Warren club argue a case on common law marriage in Langdell Hall Centre...