Word: picnicers
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...with ignominy by being tight, uncommonly tight, which is a shocking reversal of the proper order, 1928, however, will have no conscientious scruple for parsimony. Forty-two percent of the seniors never drink, and it is rumored that this year the funds, instead of being used for a senior picnic, will purchase two heroic statues for the steps of Widener Rodin's 'Le Penseur,' representing Concentration and one of G. K. Chesterton, symbolic of Distribution. Surely the freshmen must contribute generously to such a cause...
...four kerosene lamps and one piano. The room directly adjoining it is the room where the President was born, at a time when his father kept the store. C. Bascom Slemp hurried around gathering human interest material. One of his finds was a picture taken of a Sunday school picnic which includes Calvin Coolidge at the age of ten, his sister, now dead, his father, several elders, other children and an organ...
...gathered here from all parts of the world, not because it is a holiday or a picnic, or from any desire to give vent to our emotions, but because we are charged with a responsibility to our race to enter on the vast duty of Empire building. We are here to redeem the 12,000,000 miles of our native land...
...returned men were generally in good health, particularly the native porters, who were professing they had enjoyed the trip as a sort of great picnic at high wages...
...post-card questionnaires sent out to many undergraduates on the subject of a "Harvard Scout Club" have caused what might be called an ebullience of intellect. The wording of the postcards undoubtedly suggested the idea that the boys of Harvard were to band themselves together into a sort of picnic club that might appropriately subscribe to the Youth's Companion and pound rocks; but, as Mr. Kennedy explains, the sponsors of the movement intended no such thing. Since the Senior Picnic has been abolished it would be a great shame to institute another such custom. The sarcasm of our communicants...