Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tennis courts, of the most modern construction, will be added today to the 60-odd already available for use by members of the University, with the opening of the Claverly Tennis Courts at 126 Mt. Auburn street, west of Craigie Hall. The courts will be accessible to members, except during the summer vacation, when they will be open to the public...
...rest of the number is less controversial, more purely literary. Mr. Mitchell's "Study of Oscar Wilde" is judicious, sound, and pleasing, though he uses some odd English--"he was wretchedly raised"; "wearing his top coat every day and leaving it off on Sundays," "impulsive with protest against the contract of existence"; and "protagonists" in a wrong sense. The essay leaves us in doubt as to whether Wilde's work is really worth such thorough study and careful criticism...
...Odd numbers of the band will report for rehearsal at the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8. C. CORDIER, Captain, U. S. Army, Commanding
...possible that the same milieu is producing again the same type of art? Surely there is no suggestion of Harvard in the work of these two poets, but may they not both express an aesthetic revolt against their drab environment? The other verse-pieces, except for an odd word here and there, like Mr. Damon's 'tinsel-snow," so fortunate in his etching of Christmas-eve, are not distinguished. The cymbals and the castonets, even the slug-horns, of the Saturnalia fail to rouse...
...wishing to participate in the scrub hockey series must sign up today before 6 o'clock in the blue-book provided at Leavitt & Peirce's. Candidates are urged to sign up in teams if possible, but odd men will be assigned to teams provided they specify the positions they wish to play...