Word: sittinger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Even the most normally complacent and unobserving of Harvard's dripping sons would respond instantly to the suggestion, no matter how veiled or subtle, that yesterday was an exceptionally hot day. Many men, in fact, who had stayed in Cambridge expressly to study for examinations, found refuge only in what...
To many minds "tradition" means sitting on a fence and spinning tops, or ducking some insubordinate Freshman beneath the cooling influence of a town pump. But such a conception is extreme.
I believe I wrote you a little note some two weeks ago--promising to write more fully almost immediately--if not sooner--and there I've allowed all this time to slip by with never a word. But--when you get this--you will allow your mind to slip back...
A special course in practice fire and record work has been arranged with a view to affording the greatest variety of practice possible in the short time allowed. Five shots each will be fired from 200, 300 and 500 yards in kneeling, sitting and prone positions, respectively, during the preliminary...
President Poincare has at last invited M. Clemenceau to form the new cabinet. From the beginning of the war the "Tiger of France" has resolutely abstained from co-operating with any political group, sitting aside and criticizing whatever government happened to be in power. His efforts have been destructive rather...