Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...disadvantage of continuing in this league is that Princeton, Yale and Cornell are not in class C. They are the ones with whom it is most interesting to compete and therefore the management has decided to desert the league. By shooting less matches it is expected that the care and interest and thus the score of the individual match will be increased. To accomplish this it is essential that many candidates report for the team. Ten men shoot every match and the best five scores only are sent in to the referee...
...feeling of the man in the desert who sees the longed-for oasis fade into a mirage is very similar to that of the man who sees the patient labor of days turned into so much junk by an unexpected manifestation of the hidden forces of nature. Pennock met all these obstacles in the only way in which they can be successfully met: with a smile. He never acknowledged difficulties and troubles. In this way he surmounted them one by one till the first peak was fairly reached: triumph seemed assured in the first process: from that time...
...have but the slightest sketch of the operations of these Harvard delvers on the margin of the Nubian desert. The world will await with interest their fuller and more authoritative story. But we know that at least they have won an archaeological victory, even if they have won it at the hands of the god of chance. They were at least earnestly "on the job" to take advantage of any gifts that that god might bring them. Boston Transcript...
...scene presents a village on the edge of the Arabian Desert, with a stone altar, and the vestiges of Job's mansion, and both the scenic and lighting effects are unusual. The cast is as follows: Satan, M. Roth '17 Job, W. M. Silverman '18 Bildad, L. S. Levy '17 Zophar, W. Hettleman '19 Eliphaz, J. Auslander '17 Elihu, D. Lewis '16 Voice out of the Whirlwind H. Epstein '16 Choregus, J. Watchmaker...
...last reached a grown-up institution and that it is up to him to put away childlike things. Very often his illusions of what a college ought to be are shattered. Gone are the Ralph Henry Barbarism of "frattiness" and the "rah-rah" spirit. He must even desert the "campus" for the more prosaic Yard. Usually the illusion is broken in a few months, and he begins to accept complacently and finally with satisfaction,--Pharasaical, if you will,--that this college is different...