Word: knell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that a board had been appointed to investigate the entire Harvard employment situation sounds the knell of a stalking ghost of scandal that has haunted the respectable corridors of Lehman Hall for nearly an entire semester. Such an announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...
...hockey season has already gone its limit and only the professionals are still at it on the ice. But professional schedules always run longer in any sport. The teams at the other Universities have turned in their skates at least two weeks ago. Winter sports have heard the death-knell and spring athletic teams are in the stage of preparation. Several of the hockey players are already overdue to report for their respective spring sport. Then, too, the Seniors on the squad have dreaded divisionals looming before them which come shortly after spring vacation. Another thing to be considered...