Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action of the 1919 Committee in deciding to postpone the annual Junior Dance in the Union is worthy of much commendation. There seems to be no doubt that the plans for the dance could have been carried through without transgressing Mr. Storrow's order for the closing of public and private places of amusement at 10 o'clock, but any violation of the spirit in which that order was issued would, in effect, be a violation of the order itself. If it had been thought practicable by the Fuel Administration in New England to cause all dances held in private...
Perhaps I am presuming too much when I gather from the editorial that University Chapel would be abandoned under the proposed plan. This time-honored institution, attendance at which is compulsory at many American colleges, comes at 8.45 every week-day morning, as, no doubt is well known. According to the suggested scheme, it follows, therefore, that unless the chapel hour were changed--say to four o'clock in the afternoon, all men having nine o'clock classes would be prevented from attending...
There is no doubt that the "gluttons for work," as aforesaid, will be found. The advantages of getting a full "Tech" course in three years or less will appeal to many boys willing to test their mettle in such a scheme. It will not only help them, but will hasten the country's needed supply of Technology trained men. --Boston Post...
...present taking no interest in rowing. A year ago at this time the boathouse was packed with ambitious oarsmen; now at most two or three report. Possibly the members of the University are working too hand to take an hour off every few afternoons, but somehow we doubt it. The word "informal" should not carry with it any sort of stigma, especially as the crew is probably to row a similar Yale organization this spring...
There may be some satisfaction--though we doubt it--to know that the progress of cold waves is "due to thee gravity of the hydrostatic pressure due to the weight of the air in the rear of a volume of cold air advancing from the northwest, resulting from the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis, giving a centrifugal force to the denser cold air greater than that of the neighboring warm air." This mechanical theory of the progress of the wave does not, however, explain exactly why the present (it is impossible at the moment to write "recent...