Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...donation of a commodious building is concerned; but to make a social Centre as Dr. Walker outlined it forty years ago, yet remains. I have spent the last two University years in Oxford where, after an absence of forty years, I was delighted to find the splendid new University Union buildings wherein such a spirit of social democracy was already prevailing that the old-timed distinctions and antagonisms which for centuries had made the Colleges like so many floating icebergs, were largely ignored and rapidly disappearing...
...appeared as through Dartmouth was to have thing all its own way. After rushing the ball to the one-yard line, Llewellyn, at quarterback, made the first of Dartmouth's many costly fumbles, preventing a score until the next period. Princeton then rallied and with a combination of splendid and runs and deplanes through the heavy Dartmouth line scored a touchdown, but failed to even up the score by missing the attempt at a goal. Baker, however, made a beautiful kick from placement a moment later...
...subject "Intimations of Immortality in the Sonnets of Shakespeare." Immortality is divided into three classes, the natural, the ideal, and the spiritual. The natural is that which would seem probable from the processes and laws of nature; the ideal, that which the human brain can imagine as most splendid; and the spiritual, that which is taught by religion...
Practice for the Appleton Chapel Choir will begin this week. As it is essential that a large choir be secured, all men in all departments of the University interested in singing are urged to apply. The year's work gives a splendid vocal training. The University Chorister will be in Grays 4 from 9.30 until 12 o'clock this morning and from 11 until 12.30 o'clock tomorrow to meet all candidates...
Practice for the Appleton Chapel Choir will begin next week. As it is essential that a large choir be secured, all men in all departments of the University interested in singing are urged to apply. The year's work gives a splendid vocal training. The University Chorister will be in Grays 4 from 9.30 until 12 o'clock on Monday morning and from 11 until 12.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning to meet all candidates...