Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great works have been wrought in the hills of New Hampshire since the day when Elzear Wheelock made his way up the Connecticut river to found Dartmouth College. He was enthusiastic in his desire to start a school for the education of the Indians in the ways of God and the white man's civilization, little dreaming that in 150 years the modest institution would change into a college of national reputation...
...Class of 1872 on its twenty-fifth anniversary gave to the College a clock for the tower in Memorial Hall. The striking of this clock was a great annoyance to Professor Shaler, who declared that he heard it every hour in the night. 'I told the Corporation,' he said, 'that it would have to choose between me and three thousand pounds of brass...
...over the press box, it could be heard in practically every part of the Stadium. The problem was apparently settled once and for all. But when the press box had filled up about fifteen minutes before game time and the thousands of spectators were filing their way into the great enclosure something seemed to have happened. The line up was being announced and nobody more than twenty yards or so away could hear a single word. The trouble was discovered; the acoustics of the box had been ruined by the addition of two hundred and fifty odd human beings...
Despite the fact that compulsory Freshman Hygiene lectures prevented a great many men from entering the meet, all the halls were well represented in each event. Where a Freshman living outside the dormitories wished to enter the meet he was assigned to run for some one of the four halls...
...athletes does throw a cloud over the situation, but it is easy to see how the practice may well have grown up inadvertently and as a matter of convenience. The men most likely to be known to the H. A. A. are of course athletes, and there is no great difficulty in assuming that the jobs in its control have been assigned to them quite innocently...