Word: roster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic voices, the voices of Nestors who recall the glorious battles of the golden age of politics, bellow the roster of their captains: "Robinson of Arkansas! Would you be President by sleeping the moon away in the quiet of your barracks? Walsh of Montana! Why are your battle cries so feeble?" And then their cries turn into lamentations which no echo answers...
...complete roster of the track team for the southern trip was announced last night by Coach Farrell. Several of the men were picked last week but the final selections were not made until yesterday. The squad is now composed of 28 athletes, with whom three coaches and two managers will journey southward during the vacation...
...fail to be present in the Germanic Museum at 11 o'clock this morning, may my name be erased forever from the roster of the Ancient Order of Vagabondage. To miss a discussion of the novel would be unfortunate, but to miss such a discussion into which has been brought the exotic personality of James Joyce would be unthinkable. Much can be said about the value of bread as food, but a vagabond above all can not live by bread alone. So let none try to stop me from hearing Professor Lowes speak on the novel and psychological metamorphoses...
...roster of Summer School instructors will be enhanced by the presence of two visiting professors from England. John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of London, will give a course on the Drama from the Restoration to 1800, and on the development of the theatre. The other visiting professor, William David Ross, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, will give a course on the Philosophy of Aristotle...
Hobo College, according to an Associated Press dispatch of yesterday, has given 150 diplomas and disbanded for the year. This institution, located in Chicago, has had more than 20,000 men on its roster in the past term. "One of the qualifications for graduation", says the dispatch, "was examination by a psychiatrist, the college faculty holding that prolonged vagrancy indicated a psychopathic condition." As far as a true vagabond is concerned, this is indefensible,--diplomas and examinations. What after all, is the use of vagabonding...