Word: existing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...English universities have a college system, and the world in which a man will live is determined by himself by his choice of a college. Many American schools have the fraternity system, notably Cornell, where there are more than half a hundred societies. Where the fraternities do not exist other social organizations take their places. At Princeton the eating clubs, some of them of respectable antiquity with traditions to cherish and trophies and souvenirs to treasure, hold the field...
...traditional ten-day holiday which has existed as a ten-day holiday from the creation of the world and the Board of Overseers, and will continue to exist as such although the seven heavens fall. Already the exultant van of the home ward-bound army, those who live somewhere west of Chicago, has begun the long trek. Today the last man who has a home and money will leave...
Since it has been conclusively proved that the Harvard Union cannot exist as a social club in its present weak status, both financially and economically; since the undergraduate officers of the Union were given to understand by the College authorities in May, 1916, that in the event of an affirmative majority on the membership question by the undergraduate body, that the annual fee at a reduced rate would be placed on each undergraduate's term bill; and since the vote showed a three-to-one majority in favor of the above proposition; we, the undersigned Governing Board of the Harvard...
...Office has also spent considerable time in the pursuit of the elusive snap course, and by means of fixed standards of marking and other ingenious devices it has produced a very salutary effect. Hounded in this fashion both by Office and students, the poor snap course has ceased to exist as a separate species. There are still hard courses and easy courses, it is true, but the student will now find that what he gets out of a course both in marks and in knowledge depends very nearly upon what he puts into it in the way of conscientious endeavor...
...with five violins two violas, a cello and a contrabass, made of birchwood. I provided the strings and I know not how many unfortunate Siberian horses sacrified their tails for the bows. All the war prisoners, particularly the Hungarians, need music almost as much as food. They simply cannot exist without it. When instruments cannot be bought they make them out of whatever happens to be available...