Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Violating a five-year-old undergraduate "peace treaty," Louisiana State students raided Tulane's campus on the eve of the Deep South's big game, stuck their colors on the flagpole, smeared TO HELL WITH TULANE all over walks and buildings, predicted L. S. U. 40; Tulane 0. The Louisiana Staters were not quite extravagant enough. Final score: L. S. U. 41, Tulane...
Travel time will not be granted to anyone except those who live a long distance away. Under the previous arrangement, it had been granted liberally, but this year it will be given only to those who need it to get home by Christmas Eve...
...very liberally to men living at a distance. In extending the vacation, the Faculty voted that travel time should not ordinarily be granted. The only exceptions will be in the case of a few men who would have to be granted travel time to reach their homes by Christmas Eve...
Overjoyed Harvard students are in the position of Adam and Eve when the bank foreclosed on Eden, because, even if the two-week vacation is rain from heaven, it seems to be given for this year only. But, being accustomed to such a paradise of leisure, Harvard men will not permit it to be taken away again. The University has taken a step in the right direction; its next must be to make a generous Christmas vacation a permanent part of the schedule...
...solid, bourgeois Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then proceeded to accentuate the crash. What honest Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...