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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unknowingly, Albrechtskirchinger has thrown a snag into normal University Hall operations because the machine room staff can't fit his name into course and grades lists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Albrechtskirchinger' Is Too Long, So He's Called 'Albrechtskirchinge' | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...University's IBM machines allow 18 spaces for both last names and initials, and "this is usually more than enough," Cameron Lawrence, assistant to the Registrar, says. Not only was there no room for initials in Albrechtskirchinger's case, but it was also necessary to drop the final "r" from his 19-letter last name in order to squeeze him into the lists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Albrechtskirchinger' Is Too Long, So He's Called 'Albrechtskirchinge' | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...team up for the games." In these days of two platoon football, they just don't go out and "win one for the Gipper" any more. It is far more important to hire a sound football coach than one who can sound like Pat O'Brien in the locker room between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will beat the poorer...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...even break?" Not athletic scholarships, mind you, nor lowered entrance requirements, nor easy courses: just an even break. The H.A.A. and the Student Employment Office will not guarantee a job--a real job, where you work for the money you get; and the Housing Office will not guarantee a room in the same price bracket throughout a man's college career. Neither of these steps can be called "subsidizing...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

Freshmen will be able to deconvert by moving into rooms in Wigglesworth vacated by upperclassmen who move into the Houses and outside dormitories in February. Forty-eight upperclassmen living in the G, H, and I entries of Wigglesworth will be evicted to make room for the Freshman deconversion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Deconversion To Begin in February | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

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