Word: opener
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only is much time being lost regularly on the unnecessarily strict observance of routine, but the officers in some cases regard this as the "open season" for all week-end leaves of absence. Trivial infractions are punished by confinement to barracks and a number of hours of fatigue duty at the week-end. Such a policy plays havoc with the victim's time for study. For, he is not only denied the use of the library, and freedom of action for similar purposes, but brass and window polishing is substituted, per force, for necessary preparation of courses. The result...
...that all the fighting is now going on in which the American troops are taking part. It was a difficult task that had been given them--to clear the Argonne Forest of Germans, but it has been done at a great cost. However, the fighting is now in the open and things ought to go on more rapidly...
...customary "open house" will be held this year by the Phillips Brooks House on Thanksgiving evening. All members of the University who will remain in Cambridge over the holiday are invited to attend...
...probable outcome of this arrangement; the students should feel it their duty to study and officers should be put over them to assist them in every practical way in doing so. Yet in time of peace, with the supreme necessity of persistent application largely removed, it is at least open to question whether students profit more from the pursuit of study under supervision than under a system of voluntary performance. It is said that many of the men, in spite of the watchful eye of the observer, do no more than gaze stupidly at their books or add their talent...
...regular private performance of the 47 Workshop will be given at Agassiz House; Radcliffe, tonight at 8 o'clock. The second regular performance is to be next Monday. The two plays are "The Middle Window" and "Rise Up, Jennie Smith,", by Eugene Pillot, in one act. These performances are open only to regular members of the Workshop audience, who are expected to write a criticism...