Word: rested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have growled and grumbled at the new five-day vacation imposed on the national industries by Mr. Garfield, there was one plank in his platform which pleased the undergraduate. Monday seemed well on the way to join Sunday on the credit page of our lives. Two consecutive days of rest and ease made us more and more in favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion, for Monday...
...from being considerably larger than it otherwise would have been. The college finances have, however, decreased about 40 percent in the three upper classes. Some of the surplus funds accumulated in recent years will be used this year to make up the deficit, and Secretary Sheldon anticipates that the rest will be received in gifts from alumni and friends of the University...
...team that was doing the winning. Now the war has changed things: the informals have done their bit, but athletics are more or less at a standstill, and this being the case we are more and more attracted to the bright lights of Boston, where we can rest up after a day of recitations by visiting movies, theatres and even dances. Mr. Storrow's new law has now permanently interned us in Cambridge. After ten we must make the Waldorf take the place of the Copley, and our imaginations must make up for other gaieties...
...Roosevelt's already crowded schedule, and like the preceding lectures, will be open only to members of the University. Although no announcement has yet been made as to the schedule of the coming lectures, they will be continued as usual on Wednesday evenings throughout the rest of the year, in part by members of the Faculty who are in touch with special and general aspects of war work and conditions in European countries, and in part by alumni and men outside the University who can speak with authority on such subjects...
Fortunately there were both men and women on the cars who kept their heads and became influences for order in the apparent danger, helping the rest to recover their nerve and get out of the train. Were it not for their bravery many more injuries might have resulted...