Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this will transpire provided the Seniors do not delay ordering their caps and gowns. To some men the price of a new outfit may seem excessive but none should find the cost of hiring one a deterrent from adhering to this time-honored custom. Caps and gowns are essential on Class Day and the burdens of the Class Day Committee will be greatly lightened by immediate action on the part of each individual Senior...
...Couldn't find people...
...England thinks that America has made a great earnest sacrifice and that now the two countries must stand together. The British would be amazed if we did not follow them up. Britain has not always been able to find her ideal leader but at this time she has found salvation in the man who is qualified to lead, more by circumstances than by the devotion of the intellectual classes. And to this choice the British expect to find a parallel in America's future conduct, for the circumstances are no less urgent and the end is far greater...
...members of our English Department and confess to a decided feeling of disappointment on perusing the pages of the new periodical? With the exception of Miss Barbey's sketch, a charming "bit", creating the mood of a dead past much as Hergesheimer does in "Java Head", I failed to find anything in the publication to stir either the intellect or the emotions. There was considerable attempt at originality both in the stories and the poems, which left only the desire to refer the authors to Professor Babbitt's essay on that phase of literary endeavor. One of the stories...
...important thing therefore is not so greatly related to an ethical issue as between the seasonal and the permanent coach as to the desirability of excellent instruction. If Harvard, Princeton, or Yale or whatever college could find one man each, in whom resided the ability to approximate in football the qualities of a Haughton, in baseball the genius of a Bill Clarke, in rowing the ability of a William Haines and so on, there would be no questioning the advisability of engaging him permanently. But of course such a paragon does not exist...