Word: rest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman beer night committee has decided to continue holding beer nights for the rest of the year. There will be two a week, to each of which forty men, chosen by lot, will be asked. The cost of these beer nights will be defrayed by class subscription...
...rest of the contents, the verse is better than the prose. "The Dream-Palace," by J. Hinckley '06, has a light and delicate fancy and no little beauty of expression: though here and there invention flags, and metaphor and word are drummed up at the exigencies of the rhyme. "Chanson," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07, has the charm of simplicity. The stories in the number are poor. "The Play" is an elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish...
...musical program for the vesper service in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon is as follows: "Come O Israel," Sterndale Bennett: "Even Me," Warren; "Lo! the Day of Rest," Button. Front seats will be reserved for students and officers of instruction and their families until 4.45 o'clock...
...plant, and finally blossomed two weeks ahead of the usual time. On the other hand, although the antiseptic causes the celery plant to germinate more quickly, in the end there is no distinct advantage. The theory is that while the plant is dormant it is in a period of rest which the alkaloid artificially increases, so that a shorter period of time is required to reduce the period of dormancy to a hypothetical minimum. As soon as that point is reached the plant commences to germinate...
...competition the tests must be made consecutively in the order mentioned and must be completed in fifteen minutes. A rest of only one minute is allowed between tests 6-and 7 as these are also intended to test the power of repeated effort and to try the action of heart and lungs...