Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the founding of the 47 Workshop, which has been in successful operation for over ten years, Professor Baker has met with almost no assistance whatever in his efforts toward extension and improvement. At every turn his requests have been denied and his work hampered by an utterly inexplicable passive resistance on the part of the governing powers of the University. He has asked for official cooperation and has been refused. He has attempted to solicit funds and has been expressly forbidden to do so. Why he continues his apparently undesired labors can be explained on no other ground than...
...clock all Freshmen, except those dropped Freshmen who met the Hygiene requirements last year will meet in the New Lecture Hall for the opening of the prescribed courses in Hygiene and physical instruction...
...Council, then, is complete. Its size is designed for efficiency, and its personnel is all that could be asked. What will it do? It has before it the record of other councils who have year in and year out met, listened to the secretary's record of the previous period of traditional inaction, and passed on, serene in the accomplishment of nothing. It has also before it the record of its parent, the Council of 1923-24, which, being driven mad by the repeated goads of a few tireless souls, labored and brought forth several valuable mice among them...
...romance began a year ago last June, when he was travelling to Finland on the steamship Kungsholm to start work with the Finnish athletes. On the boat he met Miss Signe Quarnstrom, a girl born in Finland, who had lived in America since she was five years old, and was returning to her native country to visit her relatives...
...which is not to be interpreted as an attack on past administration of the Union. Much has already been done to bring it into the suggested position. At every turn however, it has been met by the inertia of the undergraduate body, by a lack of interest which might well warrant one in saying the average undergraduate is a callow person after all. Real interest on the part of the undergraduate body, which would result in a full and interested membership, taking some initiative from time to time, would undoubtedly do much to extend the influence and usefulness...