Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seniors, as they are being measured for caps and gowns (somewhat tardily we find), see anything in wearing this traditional academic costume but a pleasing novelty or a foolish tradition. But it is one of the significant customs which emphasizes the age of the College, like the sudden appreciation of the fact that Richelieu was still living when John Harvard gave his foundation fund for the school at "New-towne." Academic gowns originated in English law, for in the fourteenth century our ancestors in the universities at Oxford and Cambridge had apparently fully as varied, and as violent tastes...
First the effect of forests upon rainfall is to be considered. They cause the presence of a greater total amount of moisture in the air and they cool the air, thereby facilitating its precipitation, while its bed of humus will act like a sponge and absorb the percolation...
Passengers arriving at this station on surface cars which enter the station may transfer to subway trains without checks or payment of additional fare to continue their journey toward Boston, and returning may in like manner transfer to surface cars. No transfer checks will be needed at Park street...
...long ago The Boston Herald announced on "unassailable statistical authority" that one out of every six men entering Harvard from a selected group of high schools in the vicinity of Boston received honors while in College. As a result of a like inquiry in "six fashionable private schools" only one man in thirty-five attained the same record...
...playing will give the court a satisfactory tryout, and as soon as the results have been obtained a new surface will be put on a row of twelve courts. Eventually, probably during the summer vacation, it is hoped that the remainder of the courts will be improved in a like manner...