Word: sojourns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the Weld boathouse open all winter with employees paid merely to repair the shells. There is no reason why athletes should not pay for their own trophies and sweaters at the end of the season. There is no reason why the crew should enjoy a two-week's sojourn at Red Top every spring...
There is little or no justification for such a policy, for in some fields, such as modern languages, the advantages to be gained from a year's sojourn in Europe are many and obvious; moreover, unless there should result a hegira to the Continent in large numbers--which would be extremely unlikely--it is difficult to see why the University should object to men financially able in taking advantage of this opportunity. It should abandon its obscurantist tactics and put the transferral of credits on a rational basis, recognizing that for some men a year spent abroad...
...desires of the student who wishes definite instruction concerning the business of the theatre as well as instruction in public speaking, the chief attraction of the course is the congenial atmosphere of informality with which it is conducted. More than a symbol of Professor Baker's vigorous sojourn at Harvard, English 10b stands as a healthy prophecy that the University will again, sometime, have a "live" department of the Drama...
Convict Hitler and eight others receive the light sentence of detention in a fortress where they have connecting rooms. During his ten-month sojourn there, Prisoner Hitler pens the 800 bombastic pages of Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). Says the warden as they part: "I too, Herr Hitler, am now a Nazi...
After paying a ten dollar infirmary fee at the beginning of the year, a student is often surprised and annoyed when he receives a bill from one of the University doctors following a short sojourn in Stillman infirmary, and his annoyance will not decrease if a few days later some friend informs him that he has spent several weeks in the same place without paying a cent...