Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting tonight the reorganization will probably be along the lines of last year's club. Efforts will be made to secure a large room outside of college buildings to be used in common with some of the other clubs. On account of the crew celebration it will be necessary for the meeting to be very prompt...
...friends, rewarded simply by the consciousness of their usefulness. He is here also at a time when the work of all the religious societies is for the first time united in the Phillips Brooks House. There is wanted only the applications of the new men's energy to the common good...
...upper classes however, it would seem that the University Debating Club and the two courses could exert an "austere" enough influence to prevent an epidemic of informal discussion, and there seems little doubt but that such discussion would do much toward making debating attractive, and making something in common between the men who see each other a couple of hours a week in English 30 or English 6 and have no other relationship...
...hard to believe that a class, which, by its prominence in nearly every line of University activity has thus far made a favorable impression on upperclassmen, can be lacking in common spirit to such an extent. It is possible that the very success of the class in athletics has served as a blind to its true character. With so many to draw from, good teams might be put in the field in spite of an absence of general interest. Before drawing such a conclusion, however, we would suggest another possible explanation of this financial failure...
...they are hung about the walls of four of the lecture rooms. They are arranged, as far as possible, in chronological order. The engravings of Americans are hung in the east lecture room; the English chancellors in the north lecture room; the judges of the King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, in the west lecture room, and a miscellaneous collection of lawyers, law-writers and so forth, in the upper room...