Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been abandoned in 1925 for lack of patronage. A survey taken about this time revealed that 3,100 students ate daily in the square eateries for lack of an adequate University dining hall system. Faced by a growing crisis, President Lowell promised to erect a new dining hall on Mount Auburn Street if enough students were interested, but not even 500 signatures could be obtained. Students had not yet forgotten the old days at Memorial Hall...
...Mount Vernon...
Though these changes should do much to improve the fine system, one loophole remains in the Lamont laws. Because of the rate at which fines mount up, it is often cheaper to report a book lost and pay only for its replacement value. Accumulated fines can easily exceed the price of a new volume and by yielding to temptation, students will gain a book for their money...
...mount, an untamed sorrel, exploded from the rodeo chute, rearing and chopping at the air, twisting its body with a whiplike motion, then settled down to a series of earth-pounding bucks. Champion Bill Linderman gripped with his thighs, with practiced nonchalance raked the sorrel's sides with his spurs, timing the raking motion to match the rhythm ot the bucks. All the while, Linderman kept his eyes on the sorrel's ears−whose turnings often tip off the next plunge...
Souvenir hunters plagued the tree until the Cambridge government confiscated the remains. Hoping to make the Elm myth "an object lesson in patriotism for the whole country," officials sent fragments to each of the forty-eight governors, a polished cross-section to Mount Vernon, and thirty-two inscribed blocks abroad. They also presented two gavels of Washington Elm to each state legislature. All that remained to mark the tree site was a bronze disk, resembling a manhole cover, in the middle of Garden street...