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Word: slack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final word Professor Perry said "Get the rhythm of this great University and take up the slack of spiritual indifference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN HEARD BLISS PERRY | 10/2/1917 | See Source »

...holes are dug at this season because other work is slack, and because when the ground is frozen on the surface and the frost does not go too deep, less damage is done to the lawns and turf, and the digging is scarcely less difficult than at another season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extensive Improvements Planned for Yard Plantations | 1/3/1916 | See Source »

...strangest of the many strange conditions at Harvard is the slack attitude of the ordinary undergraduate toward cribbing in outside written work. Public sentiment condemns cheating in examinations or in the classroom; it does not condemn the copying of reports, theses etc. Men are continually doing such copying to a greater or less degree, and they escape (just as in a noted case of the kind within the last year or two) not only punishment by the authorities, but all censure from friends who would be quick to frown upon cheating in other forms. Public opinion alone can deal with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONOR AMONG UNDERGRADUATES | 5/7/1914 | See Source »

...Arthur Harrison Cole, of Haverhill; Frank Frederick Covington, Jr., of Marion, S. C.; Carl Clinton Gardner, of Providence, R. I.; James Juvenal Hayes, of Evanston, Ill.; Robert Samuel Keebler, of Bristol, Tenn.; Rufus William McCulloch, of Atlanta, Ga.; George E. F. Sherwood, of Hillsdale, N. B.; Searcy Bradfield Slack, of La Grange, Ga.; John Coulson, of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MID-YEAR DEGREES GRANTED | 3/7/1913 | See Source »

...following have entered the annual championship tournament and may arrange matches to suit themselves: W. B. Harris '13, B. M. Preble '12, D. B. Priest uL., S. Seiniger '15, S. B. Slack 1G., and B. Winkelman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Items of Interest | 3/15/1912 | See Source »

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