Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Chapel would be abandoned under the proposed plan. This time-honored institution, attendance at which is compulsory at many American colleges, comes at 8.45 every week-day morning, as, no doubt is well known. According to the suggested scheme, it follows, therefore, that unless the chapel hour were changed--say to four o'clock in the afternoon, all men having nine o'clock classes would be prevented from attending...
...when the undergraduates watched Yale trample over the University and then came home happy because the best team won and because the men of Harvard were true sportsmen. Be that as it may, down in our hearts we know that in the last few years, that is to say, just before the war, the University was at its best. Like our ancestors, we came home from Soldiers Field happy because the best team won and most of the time it was our team that was doing the winning. Now the war has changed things: the informals have done their...
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...early to say what length of life this new periodical will enjoy at North Carolina or how far other undergraduate bodies will go in emulating its striking example. It is not too much to say, however, that where such manifestations as these are discovered in the spontaneous life of an institution, there you may know one more American college is of a truth "finding the range," and preparing to forge its way forward into a new epoch of public usefulness. Boston Transcript...
...Lowell from Master P. Giles of the English university, states that arrangements are being made at many of the colleges of England to provide for the American officers who desire to spend some part of their short leaves at Cambridge and Oxford. "We are proposing in Emmanuel," the letter says, "to set apart for the use of American officers six sets of rooms, and if it can be managed, we should like--and it also seems historically desirable--that Harvard men should have a first chance of coming to Emmanuel if they wish. Our population now is so much occupied...