Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Few Freshmen guilty of shouting the legendary cacophony of "Rheinhardt" from out their casements will be impressed by having to write that word five hundred times on a piece of paper subsequently to be handed to the dean. Yet this is the current quotation of the penalty attendant on this...
Among the other collections of an infancy spent in a very politically-minded family, the Vagabond recalls distinctly one occasion some presidential campaigns ago when his father, growing irate against a stubborn uncle, overwhelmed the claims of the latter for his candidate with the words "But he doesn't respect...
...Occasional perusal of the editorial columns of the Boston Transcript should be sufficient to familiarize any reader with such characteristics of that paper as political prejudice or smug contempt for new and radical ideas. No one is surprised to see Transcript editors acclaim as inspired every word which issues from a Republican month, dismiss with a shrug the work of advanced political thinkers, or threaten the country with imminent ruin from communist machinations. But complete as the conservative and reactionary attitude of the Transcript may usually be, it is still able on occasion to surprise the most constant...
The occasion was the celebration of the first Red Mass or Mass of the Holy Ghost ever read in the U. S. Each year in France & England this Mass (differing from the conventional form only in the insertion of added prayers to the Holy Ghost) takes place on the day...
Harvard and West Point have met 13 times on the gridiron but in each case the meeting has taken place on the Plains at West Point, and this is the first occasion on which the Harvard undergraduate body has had an opportunity to act as host.