Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weather man to the University crews, for today was especially raw, but by strenuous efforts on the part of the oarsmen all danger of freezing has been dispelled. A large bonfire was built yesterday in front of the second University quarters, after several expeditions were made for drift and scrap wood, and this fire proved so popular that it has been kept burning steadily for two days. At present there is plenty of fuel, but it is earnestly hoped that what remains will not have to be used...
...first reproduction of the Freshman class picture will interest particularly the members of 1919, and action pictures of the baseball, track, and lacrosse teams are well worth filing away in the scrap-book...
...list of the autograph letters selected by Mrs. Fields for the two scrap books which she bequeathed to the College would contain the names of most of the writers of the nineteenth century. When these are added to the catalogue of those which Mr. Winsor and Mr. Lane have for many years been accumulating for the College Library, recently very largely increased by the gift of Dr. Rupert Norton's collection, by those in the Harry Widener Library, and those of Mr. Robert Gould Shaw, the College will have available for use a very important body of material illustrating...
...English recruiting posters done in vivid colors has been placed in the periodical room of the Union, replacing those done in black and white by Frank Brangwyn, which have been on exhibition for the past week. The titles of the posters are as effective as the pictures themselves. "A Scrap of Paper" shows the treaty of 1839 guaranteeing the independence and neutrality, of Belgium signed by both British and Prussian representatives. "Follow Me," showing a soldier leaving for the front; "Remember Belgium," picturing that country in flames and suggesting the possibility of Britain's finding herself in a similar plight...
...club system. Danger, however, exists and can only be eliminated by the joining of the few organizations which still elect Freshmen, to the movement already so propitiously begun. No progress, however, will be made at all if the eleven clubs who have signed the agreement consider it merely "a scrap of paper." The guarantee of democracy among the Freshmen demands the sincerity of its enforcement...