Word: grave
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Larkin discovers in Charlestown a grave-digger whose gruesome sense of humor helps the author to an understanding of a scene in "Hamlet." The narrative of the encounter is paradoxically pleasant...
...financing the work and putting it into the hands of contractors. The CRIMSON takes especial pleasure in the action of the Corporation; for it has sponsored the project and obtained the final plans which removed the objections threatening to wreck the scheme. The pool, long wanted, will remedy a grave defect in the athletic system. With it in use the dreams of the future gymnasium may rest until time and finances become suited to such an undertaking. The present addition will benefit the swimming team, the Union,--ornamentally and practically,--and numerous members of the University...
...Yale baseball situation is facing a grave crisis with the start of its preliminary season work. Of last year's squad still in college, eight of the best men have been barred from playing, some on account of studies, others because of the summer ball incident, and still others because of the three-year eligibility rule. Those debarred include such promising men as Captain Milburn, Le Gore, Pumpelly, Easton, and Rhett. Way, the best pitcher at Yale, is debarred because he has already played three years on a college varsity team...
...academic side demanded $200 or more, the social division would not suffer under the necessary Union tax. An analogy was drawn between the Union and the Library; the fact that they were of equal importance to a man, and that to charge admission to the Library would be a grave hardship to men who worked and read there but yet they would willingly put up with...
...disturbance of the peace of the world before this resort to pacific consideration of a question, is regarded as a matter of such grave importance as to be no longer tolerated, and against such action the League would use its economic and military forces...