Word: odd
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hoped that among the number of men from the three upper classes and the various graduate schools who now play voluntarily at odd times, club, class, and graduate school teams may be formed. These aggregations will play regular schedules among themselves, arranged by the Physical Training Department. At present about 30 men, sometimes more, turn up on afternoons when the Hemenway Gymnasium is not in use and pick teams from their number. The department hopes that when the Freshmen have to a large degree moved down to their Athletic Building that many more men from the University at large will...
...book collector, and historian. He is the author of "The Reconstruction of Europe," "Earl Percy's Dinner Table," and a historical sketch of the great Boston fire. In addition he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former president of the Club of Odd Volumes. In recognition of his distinction as a book collector, he received an Honorary Degree as Master of Arts from the University in 1916. He will begin his new work in January...
...explains, most of these drawings were made "during a year's service as camion driver with the French army . . . and on special duty with the 'Stars and Stripes', the official A. E. F. newspaper,," in which many of them found their first publication. "Most of them were drawn at odd moments during the French push of 1917 near Malmaison, at loading parks and along the roadside while on truck convoy, and while on special permission to draw and paint with the French army . . . The rest were drawn on American fronts from the Argonne to Belgium...
...traditionally established and so many times evidenced is the odd trait of human nature which leads men to neglect wonders near at hand while they go travelling over the face of the world to view, wonders elsewhere, that there is no need to exclaim very loudly over Harvard's purpose to bring the 11,000 Harvard men of Greater Boston to Cambridge tomorrow and show them the University. Go to the House of Parliament with a Londoner and you are likely to find it as much his first visit as yours. Induce a Maine farmer to climb a well known...
...authority derived? From the University Faculty. He must be made a member of this body with rank appropriate to the importance of his mission. Note that he is in charge of the physical up-building of not eleven, or nine, or eight men, but of three thousand odd. --Yale News...