Word: greet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them at any table. You can hear them through the length of the hall. They fraternally greet all whom they see, and hold long-winded conversations over all subjects from politics to the moon. Sometimes a group will gather and an amateur forum is organized, like nothing so much in the broad world as a Ladies Aid Society holding a sewing bee. To the weary and unwilling listener to these parleys it seems strange that so much wisdom could be contained in so small a space. Surely Diogenes and his tub had nothing on a few loquacious spirits and their...
...Field. Tonight, at the reception in the Union, there will be an opportunity for us to show, more personally, how real this backing and support was. Work for another successful year cannot begin too early and there can be no better beginning than a large and enthusiastic gathering to greet the recognized football champions...
...altogether without hope of emerging from the obscurity that is the lot of the harmless, necessary scholar, into something of the light that beats so fiercely upon a gridiron. The griev- ance of these intellectuals is not simply the monopoly of college yells and admiring glances that greet the football captain wherever he is so gracious as to show himself. Their complaint goes deeper. The tangible rewards of university life are reserved, not for honor men, but for those who have defended the prestige of the institution at right half or in centre field. Four-fifths of the nominees...
...time. Mr. Grasse is furthermore a pianist with a beautiful touch and a highly developed skill. Grasse's compositions and playing have received the warmest approval from audiences both in Germany and in this country. Let us therefore not be behindhand in furnishing a worthy and enthusiastic audience to greet this real genius at his first appearance among...
...paying member of the Union. The building is not designed, primarily, as a place for study, or reading, or games, or lounging, or eating--for all of which abundant accommodations are provided elsewhere--but for seeking and cultivating the social element in the University life. To meet and greet, freely and cordially, whatever members may be found in or about the building and to become mutually interested in all the details of one another's studies and lives, without the necessity of a formal introduction or of an apology for introducing one's self should be the first, every...