Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statutes of the college, April 19 must be included in the spring vacation. This not only serves the worthy purpose of preventing students from receiving extra vacation on Patriot's Day, but also insures that any Harvard student seeking rest in his home town or in some spring resort will not be bothered by friends from any other institution. Yale and Princeton students, whose vacations come at the usual period during the last week in March, are not able to secure the pleasures that we enjoy in our splendid isolation...
...time to preach the old sermon again. Every so often the Freshman Class must be told that the University is neither a winter resort nor a collection of class-rooms. The man who has no time for his studies because his hours are consumed in numerous Boston engagements is hardly worse than the man who has time for nothing but studies. Neither one is giving anything to the University and the conclusion is obvious enough that neither gets anything in return...
...there any use in arguing? There is no use in arguing. Either you smoke and are blessed, or you don't smoke and resort to plebiscites. Suppose smoke, fire and ashes do get into non-smokers' eyes? Where there is smoke there must naturally be fire, cinders, grit, stains on the table cloth, pipe cleaners on the piano, matches in the bread box, and ashes everywhere. They are the cloud of glory the smoker trails after him. They are the outer and visible signs of an inner peace beyond description...
...hardly refrain from wondering how many undergraduates really become acquainted with the Widener Library during the course of their College career. Apparently very few, judging by the general ignorance of the special collections and the complete helplessness of the average student when necessity sometimes forces him to resort to the catalogue room. As Mr. Morrison says, "Here are books from all the corners of the earth and card indexed! Plunge in! Learn to wonder and to love and live...
Jimmy Hussey's Revue "Tattle-Tales"--which had been playing at the Globe Theatre up to but recently, seems to have had a sudden termination. Rumor has it that the cause was mismanagement, and that it was necessary to resort to popular subscription among the members of the "Follies" to bring the company back to New York...