Word: obtain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruling marks a departure from the old system of subjecting all except dean's list men to probation for extending their holidays beyond the prescribed limits. It does not, however, include Freshmen and will not obtain for the Christmas and April recesses...
...present time, it is expected that the new pool will be completed in February. Of course, the meet would rest on the contingency that the pool be ready for use in good time, and it is possible that uncertainty on this score would prejudice Harvard's chances to obtain the meet. It is certain that the event would prove a gala opening for the new pool and would do immeasurable good in stimulating interest in aquatic sports in Cambridge. It is to be hoped that what is now at best only an uncertain rumor may some day become a fact...
Fortnight ago Gaston Bayle, in the course of a morning's routine work, proved fraudulent a document with which one Joseph Emile Philipponet, traveling salesman, had attempted to obtain a sum of money from his landlord. Last week the thwarted Philipponet came early to the Prefecture of Police, hung about the draughty corridor until Criminologist Bayle stepped briskly through the door, started upstairs to his beloved laboratory. Stepping forward, Salesman Philipponet fired three times. The great Gaston Bayle swayed, then rolled to the stairs, sprawled, gasped up a mouthful of blood, was dead...
...flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough, for the members spend so much of their time at the airports that they soon leave their studies far in arrears. It is a far more challenging thing to a boy of this temperament to obtain his pilot's license than to labor all year for three dull C's and a D in his college courses. That being the case, would he not, more logically, be a student at an aviation school that at Harvard or Yale? In the end, he might decide that a college diploma...
Pres. Angell also said he was opposed to the plan suggested by faculty members for having students obtain special permission to leave town for the week-ends, and having them register before leaving and upon their return. Unless conditions were remedied, he added, some such plan might be adopted. --Boston Globe