Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relentlessly the final hour struck at midnight. Into effect went the new Egyptian tariff law, carrying a broad schedule of increased duties. Winners were those merchants who had received the biggest stocks of goods under the old and lower tariff. So great was the rush, so swift the race that customs receipts at Alexandria for the 30 days just passed amounted to $1,000,000, whereas last year during the same period they were only...
...fervor of almamatermania which drove the 200 young men of Harvard to demolish a subway car is even loss desirable. We have many times discussed the merits of the green cap, the St. Pat's parade, and the big rush: but we have never had quite so insane a specimen of sophomorism at Wisconsin as Harvard's expedition into school spirit...
...class rush beyond the imaginative powers of the most collegiate minded of motion picture producers has recently provided a few hours of tense excitement at Amherst College. There have been class rushes of almost every conceivable description, but setting the greater part of an oil-soaked Freshman class on fire is certainly, an innovation of distinct originality. Unfortunately, the peculiar nature of the incendiaries indulged in by the Amherst sophomores did not alleviate its evils with the result that a number of Amherst's erstwhile flaming youths are now cooling off in the college infirmary, some of them seriously burned...
...practice of holding a class rush which persists as a hallowed tradition in many otherwise sanely conducted colleges, originally conceived with the aim of promoting class spirit, has achieved in practice more distinctive 'success' as a method for annually mangling a few unfortunate participants. Class unity can be achieved through less drastic measures, and although Amherst's recent contribution was the first time a class rush has developed into a conscientious attempt at whole-sale murder, class rushes even when conducted in a temperate frame of mind are inevitably accompanied by casualties due to the indiscriminate milling of a large...
...which she invites all the most attractive young men: they discuss high matters of philosophy. "She cited often the saying of Plato that the true philosophers are the young men of their age. 'Not,' she would add, 'because they do it very well; but because they rush upon ideas with their whole soul. Later one philosophizes for praise, or for apology, or because it is a complicated intellectual game.' " Chrysis recites Greek tragedies, of which she knows many by heart. Occasionally one of the young men is allowed to stay for the night. Many of them...