Word: grateful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduates Magazine" points out the sad lack of private libraries among students, and the resulting traffic in second hand textbooks which flourishes on the Square. The undergraduate no longer dines in quiet with a few "kindred spirits", nor sits comfortably before a bed of coals glowing in his small grate. Instead he rushes from the clattering dishes of some restaurant or lunch room to the bustle of competition or athletic field, and later after a pleasant evening elsewhere he returns to his room too tired to do anything but crawl into...
...profession must face, Mr. Perry recalls how one writer was convinced that a certain institution was using methods which were prejudicial to his best interests in order to win a football game from its rival. He wrote fearlessly and checked the practise--but as a result is "persona non grate to the football faculty of that institution and is set down as a man merely intent upon venting personal grievances...
...unfortunately when he was cremating some scattered portions of Dr. Parkman the gentleman's false teeth fell through the grate of the furnace into the ash bed beneath. The discovery of these false teeth and its identification by the doctor's dentist were enough to send Professor Webster to the gallows...