Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday a part of the brick sidewalk at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Bow Streets was removed and a space prepared for the Lampoon offshoot...
...ceremony marked the formal dedication of the new buildings. Students who are living in it formed a procession and escorted President Comstock and President Emeritus Briggs to the end of the structure. Here the former made a brief address describing the things that had been sealed within the corner stone. These included a photograph of President Emeritus Briggs, a picture of President Comstock, the names of those who contributed towards the cost of the new dormitory, a recent Radcliffe pamphlet, the Red Book and the latest copy of the Radcliffe News. President Emeritus Briggs then delivered a short speech...
University students do not take much stock in the superstition that walking under a ladder brings bad luck. A lamp cleaner placed his ladder across the walk leaning against a lamp post on the corner of Quincy Street and Massachusetts Avenue. During the five minutes the ladder was across the walk, 22 men, most of them students, walked boldly under the ladder and tempted the gods of fate. In the same interval only one person took the trouble of walking around the foot of the ladder and avoid the consequent ill fortune...
...building will be erected in the southwest corner of the Yard, directly opposite the subway rotunda...
...vast, pervading and mysterious silence. It is broken here and there by the vocal nominee of the Republican party, warning the American people in anxious tones that around every corner and under every bedstead there lurks a Bolshevik ready to destroy them. Now and then some person, almost forgotten, writes to a candidate and complains of the terms in which he has been described...