Word: discreeter
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...undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
With the academically dead and dying scattered untidily all over The Hill, the cause of good scholarship is shedding a discreet tear just behind the scenes. Causes and alibis for "busting," and pro-bations are more plentiful than ever, but none answer the damning indictment that too much of Cornell has been guilty of intellectual slovenliness during the past term...
...cousin to the magazine mangler and blood brother of the noisy card player. Society, in college and out, tolerates such men because they apparently get some innocent happiness out of such a performance, but it wishes, nevertheless, that energy thus employed were expended at a more discreet time or in a better cause...
...given a serious and earnest interpretation, and the playing of P. G. Clapp '09 of the difficult piano part is especially worthy of praise. C. L. Tittmann 2L. has a sonorous voice of large compass; his performance of "The Two Grenadiers" was especially impressive. "Le Cor" was given with discreet imagination, and Clapp's "The Swimmer" with considerable dramatic effect...
...clothing collection on Friday, December 6. The dormitories will be canvassed from 2 to 3 and from 7 to 8 o'clock, when men are urged to have in readiness any clothing, in condition to be serviceable, which they expect to use no longer. The clothes are distributed by discreet and responsible charitable agencies among the poor of Boston and vicinity. Any clothing in condition to be still useful will be most acceptable...