Word: piles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things not needed. But that is as it should be according to Mr. Emerson, for college trains not for life but for living. The four "wasted" years should not pack the mind with encyclopedic facts or change the brain into an animated Spanish dictionary. Instead they should serve to pile up a store, a credit account of satisfaction on which to draw in future years...
...second straight victory of the season. New York scored their one run in the first inning but thereafter were held scoreless by the effective pitching of the Princeton boxmen, while the Orange and Black, though falling to score in the initial frame, began in the second inning to pile up the runs due, in a large part, to effective hitting on the part of MacPhee and Mcllvaine...
...defeat yesterday afternoon when they faced the fast West-minster combination in a practice workout at the Arena. Captain Hodder's absence because of illness left a wide gap in the yearlings' second string line and it was doubtless this weakness which allowed the Westminster skaters to pile up the 7-2 score...
...letter today concerns the popular Inca pastime of Rolo, which our specialists have just discovered. At the base of the mountain we came upon a huge pile of rocks stacked haphazard at the foot of a broad ramp which led up the slope to the site of the university. We were long in a quandary about their significance, but by means of various records unearthed in the city above, or cut in the rocky faces of the cliff (details of which I must spare you), Senor Alvarotez has deduced this astonishing explanation...
What was the outcome? On this we have no hints from the records, and cannot even make conjectures. The pile of rocks still stands at the foot of the incline, a pathetic witness to the glory that was once the university's. Cordially yours, J. BLAIR-DUNCAN