Word: publicational
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Botanic Garden, founded in 1807, and supported by private endowment and subscription, has never been closed to the general public, except for the first three days of last week, when, due to a misunderstanding, Professor Hamblin had a fence erected between the Garden and the property of the Gray Herbarium, had all the gates locked, and denied access to all visitors. Wednesday afternoon the Garden was opened again, by order of the President...
...cobblestoned little street in Providence, moved a stately stream of men and women, capped, gowned, uniformed. They had to dig in their heels, so as to proceed with the gravity the occasion demanded, and tortuously descended from Brown's campus to the First Baptist Meeting House ("built for public worship and to hold commencements in") midway down College Hill. This was the formal part of Dr. Barbour's induction...
Convicted owner-drivers will be placed by the police in public stocks for 30 minutes. Convicted chauffeurs will have their hands trussed behind them, will wear a sandwichman's placard setting forth their infamy, will be marched around the principal streets of Bucharest by constables for one hour. In addition, both drivers and chauffeurs will be liable to the usual fines, imprisonments...
...hearing of a school's taking a new course in the very middle of the football season; namely that of attempting to strengthen an apparently weak eleven for the final and crucial tests of its fall campaign. The knowledge that such an accusation would inevitably bring into the public eye questions of good sportsmanship and fair play should alone have been enough to deter those in authority from announcing their decision at such an injudicious moment, however much the general effect may be minimized by Exeter's traditionally high reputation...
...even 2000 letters come in each day, and usually half of these are invitations to the students! Sometimes a staff of several men has been kept working as late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people rap at it in the vain hope that maybe we swill satisfy their desires...