Word: occur
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...events of the play are supposed to occur on one of the islands of the Philippine group and hinge upon the abdication of the King. The King cannot decide whom he would best appoint as his successor. This uncertainty leads to a great deal of clever plotting on the part of the three aspirants for the throne, and to many amusing complications. The customary love story runs through the play, ending happily in the coronation of the hero and his betrothal to the heroine...
While teaching in a preparatory school before entering the Harvard Law School, I gave private lessons in boxing and fencing to several boys who were students in the school, and I received pay for these lessons. At the time it did not occur to me that this would in any way affect my position as an amateur in outside sports, and the matter dropped entirely from my mind. When my eligibility was challenged the day before the Yale game, I never once thought of these private lessons, and did not subsequently recall them until they were brought to my attention...
...there is a great difference between a mile and a half and three miles, still it is after all a question of degree only. It is in the last mile of a four mile time row, or race, that the harm, if harm there is, is most likely to occur. The mere getting "pumped" as in a short race is not harmful. It is during the struggle to keep on, to do one's utmost towards the end of a long race, and when weakened from previous effort, that harm may occur...
...until 5 p.m. at Phillips Brooks House. There will be no balloting at the CRIMSON office, as was previously announced, owing to the difficulty anticipated in marking off names at more than one polling place. The election of the Class, Class Day and Photograph Committees will not occur until Wednesday. Following is the rule in regard to the choosing of Marshals...
...leave to inform your readers through your columns that the forthcoming pamphlet of the Division of Mathematics for 1901-02 will contain a new section entitled, "Suggestions concerning the choice of Electives in Mathematics," these being more clearly and connectedly worked out than the scattered sentences of advice which occur in previous editions of the pamphlet. The insertion of this section is due to the expression of a wish in a recent number of the CRIMSON, that such suggestions might be offered in the several departments of study; and we believe that it will decidedly enhance the value...