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Back in 1915 the first Freshman Jubilee was held in order that the enthusiastic male choruses of Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls might vent their vocal jubilation for the benefit of mothers, sisters, and other relatives. The affair' was aesthetic in every sense. First, the Freshman orchestra would play "Nearer My God to Thee' and then a ripple of applause would ensue from the spectators seated at the tables in the quadrangle. After a buffet supper, the interdormitory singing contest came. Standish Hall won the first contest and received the handsome silver trophy from President Lowell. After the singing...
...tributaries can be finished in five years if we go at it vigorously, and that the cost will not be much above a hundred million dollars. This is negligible expense for facilities that will move-economically speaking-our Middle Western wheat growers and cattle raisers hundreds of miles nearer to shipside and place them on a par with their competitors in the Argentine, India and Australia...
...Secretary of the interior and the Attorney General then in office had been accused of receiving bribes for favors rendered was of no great concern to the present leaders of the party's destines, but corruption does not exist in isolated instances and successive revelations are bringing the guilt nearer home...
...points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers and a straight edge are used to determine accurately which horseshoe is nearest the stake. But in casual bouts a player often shouts: "My horseshoe is two fingers nearer than yours...
...your praise of her accuracy and dependability would have gratified her Irish soul. When the University Gazette was started we had a solemn understanding that it was to contain no mistakes, whether of fact or of typography: the Gazette could do no wrong. No one could have come nearer to this impossible ideal than Miss Mullen, and I am glad to infer from your comments that the tradition of infallibility was maintained...