Word: helots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a place of periods, influences and trends. The Reading Period is a subject for pleasant reminiscence, the Mid-Years period one of hateful retrospection. The period of relaxation, handsome while it lasted, has gone the way of all good holidays, fast. With the exception of a few helot Seniors still enjoying French leave in the sunshine of the Bermudas or the vintage spots of the Old Dominion, the College has once more assembled. The period of recuperation has set in and it is a sad, sad business. The mail man brings his daily cargo of bills and grade cards...
...Greece, a helot trotted down to a river marsh to gather kalamoi, hollow tubular stalks of grass. Each kalamos he whittled to a tapering point and handed with ink to his master, who forthwith wrote out the accounts of his battles and of his business deals...