Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve months ago, in a dry-cold span of four days, the College was reborn. Better than 1300 men filed, passively for the most part--for they were predominantly veterans and long since line-calloused--through Memorial Hall. In University Hall the 1300 became holes in a card, names which doubled the population of the College. Four months later 900, and five months ago another 2500, worried, distended, made sweat the Administration...
...artist rather than a scholar," says George Santayana '86 in his book, "The Middle Span," harking back to the nineteenth century days when, as a member of the University, he had joined the throng at Copey's reading...
...introductory course, English 7, exactly two undergraduate courses in the field have been offered this fall: one on the local color movement and the other on American fiction since 1890. Both are specialized in the extreme and neither is concerned with the central focus of American literature, the middle span of the nineteenth century. And to pile Ossa on Pelion, the course on American fiction since 1890 conflicts in examination group with professor Merk's History of the Westward Movement--by all odds the outstanding American history course offered in the College...
...life span of 184 years will tell on a house as thoroughly used as this old colonial structure. Much of the dated furniture now in place over the library was added by one of the four owners. The first of these, and the householder who played a large part in the Revolutionary saga of this area, was John Hicks, who built and occupied the house in 1762. Hicks was a carpenter by day and a burning patriot by both night and avocation. Although carpentry took his work-time, his days were rounded out by tax-collecting for the colonial government...
...Foxcrofts gave way to the Fultons, who gave the house its longest span of single ownership, from 1839 to 1902. The Fultons were progress-minded people who changed the interior of the house completely. More than progressive, the Fultons were practical, and in the later years of the century, Hicks House was opened as a boarding house. The authorities of the New England Historical Society state that rumors had it that the place "was used as a fraternity house." Students who study Economics in 1946 may verify this by counting the pegs in the ceiling of the Economics room, pegs...