Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With $700,000 on hand for the building of the long-anticipated athletic plant and the prospect of losing $250,000 of it if work is not begun by February, the necessity of immediate and courageous action on the part of the athletic authorities cannot be denied. The announcement that, funds or no funds for the fourth, construction on the first three floors or the new gymnasium will begin next week, marks a direct effort to sever the Gordian knot. New precedent or not, Mr. Bingham has proved that he is quite capable of dealing with the numerous annoying hindrances...
Inspired as he may be by his mission of bringing light into whatever intellectual shadows of doubt can be admitted to exist in and about the Yard, the Vagabond is of too sensitive a nature to remain long indifferent to popular sentiment. For some days he has been noticing a distinct lessening of the bond of sympathy between himself and the rest of the college, and yesterday he realized that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes...
...already sufficient to complete that section of the building. At present $300,000 remains to be raised if the proposed plant is to be completed. Two annonymous donors have already provided $700,000 which is sufficient for all but the fourth floor of this athletic building which has long been one of the University's greatest needs...
...Northeastern team, until then completely overwhelmed, rallied and threatened a come-back. It's steady teamwork broke up into individual plays, marked by long shots and see-saw runs, from one end of the floor to the other. Northeastern's scoring was evenly distributed no one player being outstanding...
...that's all above behind long ago and far away...