Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a second sign of the weather brewing. In Exeter, at Killerton Park, there was rain pouring out of the sky, but special trains, omnibuses, wagons, automobiles, drove straight to the spot. Under the flooding, 30,000 people stood for an hour and a half, stood while their umbrellas leaked and the pure water from Heaven dripped down the backs of their necks?stood and listened to a wizard whose wizardy, like all magic of slight and faery lore, was supposed long since to have vanished. What...
...this concession, slight as it is, is denied Freshmen. Yale evidently entertains suspicions of all young men who have not been inoculated against moral disaster by a year of her special brand of religious nursing. "The incoming Freshmen," says the report, "will still be required to attend every day, their service coming at an earlier part of the morning...
...building a University library, or, if the University had a suitable library building, to defray the expense of any investigation "in the interests of, or for promoting the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, or to assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease, or to investigate and determine the value or importance of any discovery or invention, or any other special or temporary object of the nature above stated." Specifically it was mentioned that the investigation might be medical, geographical, historical, or scientific in character...
...take part in the Social Service Work, which consists of leading boys clubs or teaching elementary subjects, and should apply at once for the work to C.G.T. Lundell '27, Social Service Secretary at the Phillips Brooke--House. In addition, men with ability as entertainers at settlement houses. Or special interest to Freshmen, also, are the Monday Night Lectures in the Smith Halls Common Room. An especially fine list of speakers has been arranged this year, beginning on October 5 with Dean G.H, Chase on "Transition from School to College". The general subject for the lectures will be "What should...
Registration will be held at Hemenway Gymnasium and not at Memorial Hall. There will be special registration on Monday between 9 and 5 o'clock for new Freshmen admitted after September...