Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the activities in order, let us first look at the sports situation. All Freshmen are required to exercise three times a week, and they must do something organized and something upon which there is a check made. Wrestling with your roommate, for example, is exercise all right, but it just won't do for the check...
...Wednesday, September 28, at 1:30 o'clock in the Varsity Club; This completion offers Freshmen not only an excellent way of meeting a great number of their classmates, as well as men in other classes, but afford them a chance to get acclimated in Harvard in short order. It provides, moreover, an influence on first-year men which tends to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the complete freedom of college life...
Costing nearly a million dollars, the building is strictly classical in style, rectangular in shape, with Ionian pilasters, on the fads. The foundations extend 22 feet below the surface in order to accommodate two floors of book-stacks...
Among the spectators at Longwood was 20-year-old Robert Riggs, Los Angeles minister's son, who within two years has zoomed from nowhere to second ranking U. S. tennist. He had passed up the Newport tournament, last major tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...
...mere bigness did not mean badness, he argued that small business despite certain "nostalgic reminiscences" was not necessarily competitive or humane. "The village grocery store, the village blacksmith, the village grist mill, were all monopolies. . . . Such competition as there has been, curiously enough, came from large-scale enterprise; mail-order houses, and later the chain stores...