Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specimens of humanity. Both animals were torn and bleeding, the cat being too much for the dog in the fight for life. The students despatched the tortured cat with a cane, and let the remaining one go, after which becoming alarmed they made their escape. . . . The foregoing is no slight contribution to the controversy going on concerning the skepticism of Harvard College, which has drifted off into a question of the moral status of the University and students. . . . To continue, it has been a favorite recreation for the scholastic mind to keep fighting cocks in their rooms; bull dogs...
While in the west, Bingham will see Arnold Horween '21, football coach, on February 10. They will discuss the football situation. It is definitely announced that there will be no consideration of a 1927 engagement with a "Big Ten" team, but slight chance for a 1928. The University has committed itself to a two-year agreement with the University of Pennsylvania, which carries it through...
...Diaz Government of Nicaragua, presented, his credentials at the White House last week. President Coolidge told him that the U. S. marines would not stay in Nicaragua "longer than is necessary." ¶As it must to some, rose fever came last week to President Coolidge. It causes a slight irritation in the membranes of his nose and throat. "It is not serious," said the physicians, "but it is annoying." ¶Dover (N. J.) Lodge No. 541 of the Loyal Order of Moose invited President Coolidge to become a member. His secretary despatched the following polite refusal: ". . . He [the President...
...length, though Saradvat ignored the nymph, Indra was able by a miracle to effect his undoing. "A slight convulsion shook the form of Saradvat," and "from himself sprang twin children, a boy and a girl, Drona and Kirpa...
Silhouetteographs also were taken for the first time this year in order that all defects of posture might be corrected. The postures of the different men were graded alphabetically, there being only 35 A's, 300 B's 375 C's and 124 D's. These figures show a slight improvement over 1929 statistics...