Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plunged when some accident halts the Ann Arbor juggernaut and Minnesota comes out ahead. That Minnesota game for the past four years has been the bane of my existence, spiritual and financial. My credo states as a fundamental premise that The Little Brown Jug belongs on a shelf in the Perry Field Athletic Building and that it is only a streak of bad luck that has allowed it to stray up to Little Sweden. I have a number of Minnesota acquaintances here in Cambridge, and they all take pleasure in taunting me and betting money on the big game with...
...half-forgotten opera, on the shelf for nearly a century, was dusted off last week to make an exciting surprise for Manhattan audiences...
Taking the old ones down from the shelf and dusting them off is developing into what seems to be a positive, and certainly must be a paying mania of the Messrs. Shubert, Last year it was "Rose Marie" and "Blossom Time"; this year it has already been "The Student Prince," and now it is "Rio Rita"-the latest to be ground out of the Shubert revival mill. Like warmed-over carrot pudding they are never so good as at the original scrving, but the old always come back for a nostalgic second and the young to see what their elders...
...project 39 years ago, a deposit library has been a dream of Widener officials. The building now under construction is intended as a cooperative enterprise for the inexpensive storage of little-used books such as newspaper files, government reports, and textbooks, the removal of which will clear needed shelf room in Widener and other libraries...
Last term's proposal that all Economics concentrators be required to write a thesis for some course in the field their Junior year unfortunately seems to be mouldering on some forgotten shelf along with the theories of the Mercantilists. Despite strong backing by Professor "Ski-more" Seymour Morris, genius overseer of Economics 41 which has required a course thesis from all but Seniors for several years, it now appears likely that the new requirement even if adopted will be too late to take effect on the Class...