Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects of a new gymnasium are now beginning to take material and definite shape. The informal graduate committee which has been carrying on the campaign has received several large offers of contributions as soon as definite action has been taken. No attempt has been made to request contributions from the alumni, but all that have come in have been voluntary. H. Fish, Jr., '09, has pledged $5000, to be turned over as soon as President Lowell shall appoint a committee to carry on the work...
...injured list wth a bad hurt to his ankle and it is doubtful whether he will play today against the Springfield Y.M.C.A. A number of old players including Sprackling, captain of the 1911 team and "Brent" Smith have joined the coaching squad to get Brown into shape for their battle with Harvard...
...subject, but also the student, by refining to his particular use the ability of expressing himself in forceful English. The new plan should, in the first place, give the student of philosophy, government or what not a practical, actual basis on which to work; and further should shape the specialist's mode of expressing himself in the way best suited to his purpose...
From now until Christmas the time will be devoted to rounding the material into shape and to familiarizing new members with orchestral methods and routine. In the first half-year several concerts of a popular character will be given in and about Boston. After the Christmas recess only music representing the highest type of orchestral effort will be played, in preparation for the annual concert in April to be given in Sanders Theatre...
...Much the same thing is in vogue at Oxford. There, too, you will find lots of silly boys with more radical notions than they--thank Heaven!--"have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.' And they are no Hamlets either! For instance, while I was lecturing, a strike of street-car men was going on. I do not doubt the striking employees had their 'grievances' and sufficient cause for self-assertion; it was, however, no affair of the undergraduate world. Yet a contingent of those half-baked boys must needs side...