Word: downes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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the additions to the library this year are distinctly below the average; this is due to the fact that this year's committee was handicapped by a debt of some $200 left to it by the 1918-1914 committee. This deficiency was due to the fact that certain annual donations...
The business of the second act is occupied with a modernized version of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," the burlesque taking its name from the fact that Shylock takes a mortgage on Antonio's fattest calf instead of the conventional pound of flesh. Portia's defense is grounded on the...
The annual Yale races will take place at New London on June 25, between the University and Yale Varsity eight and the Freshman eights. It has not been definitely decided whether there will be four-oared races or not. The Freshman races will be rowed down-stream in the morning...
For example, not one man in ten ever does anything in a spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there...
The outstanding feature of most undergraduate discussion of war and armaments is the lack of specific knowledge which is displayed. Most men are possessed of a delightful store of generalities, some pertinent, some vague; but when pinned down to the hard facts with which to substantiate their ideas, they flounder...