Word: shut
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rumors seem to have got abroad in some places that Harvard College will shut its gates next year, or at least will not devote itself to the ordinary process of education. If such rumors merit contradiction they may not only be contradicted, but repudiated, for the College would be unworthy of its traditions and its endowment if it ceased to carry on its proper work at a crisis like the present. The Freshman Halls, like all the other dormitories and academic buildings, will be open as usual, and the activities, especially of the freshman class, will go on without change...
...five thousand white men did not administer death according to the law. They seized the negro from a willing sheriff's posse, which was sworn by all honor to uphold the law. They hold him awaiting the final torture, while excursion trains ran from the city, while business houses shut down as for a holiday, while pleasure-seekers came by motor from the whole country-side to witness this festival. This festival of debauchery...
Because of the 12 or 14 inch covering of ice which continues to shut the crews from the Charles, it was decided yesterday by Captain H. B. Cabot '17, Manager P. S. Howe '17, and Coach Haines to accept the invitation of the West Lynn Boat Club and, starting today, to send the first two University boats to Lynn harbor for practice until the river breaks up. This action was not taken until the 23d of March last year, but inasmuch as the Yale squad has been on the water since February 27, and as the Charles shows little promise...
...opportunity to be of most service, we shall have as little right in the future to call others "slackers" as we had in the past when we talked of the English football players who should have been at the front. It is a clear case of "put up or shut up" for Harvard...
...scrimmage consisting in shinny and futile passing. On one of these flashes however, Captain Morgan and T. K. Fisher '17 carried the puck the length of the rink land the latter, after drawing the goal tender out, passed to Morgan who scored. W. W. Rice '18 prevented a shut-out for the substitutes when a long shot took a lucky bounce over Wylde's stick into the cage...