Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...odd members of the University who were accepted for the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg had all arrived at the camp by yesterday noon, and with the two thousand other potential officers spent the day in obtaining equipment and getting settled in their new quarters...
Dartmouth has started a special six-weeks' training course in preparation for the Government Military Stores Service. The Tuck School, which will conduct the course, has accepted 80 men from the hundred odd applicants. Seventeen seniors and eight juniors, not connected with the Tuck School, have enrolled and will be permitted to give up their college work and substitute the new work...
...will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. This exhibition is being put on especially in connection with Professor Copeland's class in English 45, but the general public is also invited. Attention is called to the fact that of the 170 odd editions of "The Complete Angler," which have been published, the Fearing collection given to the College in 1915 by Daniel Butler Fearing, A.M. '11, contains more than 160, ranging in size from the "thumb edition" measuring only 2x1 3-4 inches, to the "Lea and Dove" edition in two large...
...School men and scientifically inclined undergraduates against the inconvenience of the drill hours have been many. With great difficulty this special hour has been arranged to satisfy a considerable number of men so situated. Over a thousand have already shown their willingness to make sacrifices. Surely the hundred odd eligibles for the new company will not lack similar courage...
...many of our own hundred million and odd people prefer the "touch-and-go" method in reading to the permanent joys of possession? The question is not idle in a land vastly richer in popular libraries than any of the countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were...