Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last two University years in Oxford where, after an absence of forty years, I was delighted to find the splendid new University Union buildings wherein such a spirit of social democracy was already prevailing that the old-timed distinctions and antagonisms which for centuries had made the Colleges like so many floating icebergs, were largely ignored and rapidly disappearing...
...Freshman team has played four games this season with Groton, St. Mark's, Hotchkiss, and Exeter, and has scored 69 points to its opponents' 0. A record like this, which is proof of hard work by both men and coaches, warrants the enthusiastic support of every man in the class, and the hard games to come absolutely require such support. All 1916 men should turn out for the meeting tonight...
Football practice was very light yesterday afternoon, lasting less than an hour. A blackboard talk in the Locker Building was followed by a brief scrimmage, in which the second team was drilled in plays something like these used by Princeton, and the first team given practice in breaking them...
...remedy is a very simple one. There should be held as soon as possible the first of a series of mass meetings, and at these mass meetings most of the time should be spent in mastering thoroughly several of the old football songs. In this way something like good singing at the Princeton game, and thereafter, may be heard; otherwise what little singing there is will be even worse than that heard at some of the games last year...
This is the first time that an open University Forum like this which will be inaugurated this evening has ever been held in American universities. The plan and general scheme are copied closely from the Oxford Forum...