Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fallacy to imagine that, by a total abolition of intercollegiate contests for a period of five months, the standards of scholarship will be raised. It is an obvious fact that men playing on teams have more incentive to keep off probation than others...
...short, covering but six or seven weeks, it takes few men away from Cambridge at any time, offers an excellent mode of outdoor exercise, has none of the abuses of other sports, employs no professional coaches, has few injuries, and gives the required amount of outside interest during a period when college life is extremely dull. We do not wish to see the baseball or football schedules cut down, but it would seem far wiser to take off some of their many games than make a total abolition of so excellent a sport as hockey. C. C. PELL...
...early life of the historian was spent in exhaustive reading, and after a short and unprofitable period at Magdalen College, Oxford, he went abroad, staying for five years at Lausanne Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and Madamoiselle Churchod, the mother of Madame de Stael. He went back to England at 21, only to return to the continent a few years later, visiting Rome and receiving there his inspiration to write Roman history...
...grown to be the practice for an athlete, upon the completion of a season in which he may have been engaged, to consider himself justified, for the purposes of "recuperating his broken health," in absenting himself, in nine cases out of ten quite unnecessarily, from Cambridge for a substantial period...
English -- Elementary Composition; Advanced Composition; Second Ad- vanced Composition; College Admission Requirements in English; *Anglo-Saxon; Outlines of English Literature; Eighteenth Century English Literature; Nineteenth Century Literature; English Poets of the Romantic Period. Professor Hancock, Mr. C. T. Copeland, Dr. P. A. Hutchison, and Messrs. C. R. Nutter, H. M. Rideout, J. W. Rankin, and H. R. Shipherd...