Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indoor sports are also drawing a few more men this year than previously with the single exception of swimming. Fencing shows an increase of three men, handball 17, and gymnasium class has increased by eight although participation in the latter activity is not voluntary...
...questions which have been raised as to their place in undergraduate social life, namely, whether separate fraternities should be identified with separate quadrangles or should serve as common meeting grounds between the different quadrangles, we decidedly favor the latter suggestion. Fraternities by and large are too hopelessly identified with individual schools at present. It is only natural for embryonic undergraduates to hear of the merits of one fraternal bond and instinctively gravitate toward it. To limit a fraternity to drawing its members from one quadrangle would tend only to aggrevate the present condition...
...also are beginning to feel its sternness. Probably it is more tolerated than approved today. And especially it is endured because the people believe it will help make Italy great and able to assert herself. Here is the difference between the nationalism of Mussolini and that of Matzini. The latter preached for a united Italy, that she might contribute towards Europe. But when unity was finally achieved, these illusions of recognition were shattered...
...Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and was located on the Merrimac River. Famed among U. S. textile plants became Amoskeag; countless were...
...repots him to have maintained that the weather had no effect whatsoever upon the human disposition and to have scorned the weakness of his biographer who admitted to depression during long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those of his readers who admit to a similar weakness...