Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate organizations assured their members that an effort would be made to solve this problem by supplying food from the College kitchens to the various club houses. This plan has since been found to be impractical. Nothing definite can be said of the fate of the clubs at present except for the fact that those in charge of working out the House Plan are in sympathy with the general aims of the clubs and appreciate their potential value in bringing men from the different Houses together...
...dean of the Graduate School of Education, was the master of ceremonies. The evening started with the performance of "Learned Salut", a very graceful and impressive ceremony by Peroy and Garsson, who followed up with a foils bout. There was no regular judging in any of the matches except that of the Lane brothers. The contestants chatted with each other and the audience as they fenced, and the sheer informality of the affair went a long way to making the evening a great success...
...call a halt. Announced his secretary, Monsignor Francis A. Burke: "The situation at the cemetery in Maiden has become such that an investigation is being made into the whole question which has developed there during the past month." Added Monsignor Burke: The gates of the cemetery would remain closed except for funerals until further notice. Iron workers under the direction of the Cardinal's brother Edward, who is superintendent of the cemetery, fixed stout extra braces to the gates; then they were locked...
...gentlemen," said Father Verdier as he entered, clasping his hands in front of the sash of his soutane, "I scarcely know what to say to you, except that I have never placed my ambition so high as this! I would have greatly preferred to continue my work in the school. However I accept gratefully the orders of the Holy Father, and I will do all in my power to fill this high office worthily...
...Campus, was broken in a class rush in 1879. Onty two fragments of that original three-rail barrier are now extant, Photographer Pach's and a section in the Alpha Delta Phi Chapter house. Yale undergraduates could only realize that no Yale team captain can be properly photographed except sitting, with his hair brushed, on Photographer Pach's fragment. Photographer Pach announced that he had been offered and had refused as high as $10,000 for the relic. New Haven stirred angrily...