Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...response to the presentation of the problem to the Executive Committee by the Student Council, the proposition of vagabonding classes was sanctioned for trial. Vagabonding, auditing, or hoboing classes is not a new idea by any means. Begun at Yale and Harvard several years ago, it has since spread to many of the larger institutions, being the same in principle at most of them, and allowing the student with a vacant hour to attend a lecture outside his own curriculum, providing he takes a seat that is otherwise vacant and creates no disturbance or does not consider his attendance...
...When I came here 42 years ago, things were different. The first Monday of the year was 'Bloody Monday'. The upper classmen went after the Freshmen, tore their clothes, kicked their hats around, and spread the pieces in the Square. Then I can remember a bon-fire in the Yard made from a collection of gates which had been removed from neighborhood hinges...
...MacDonald, D. S. C. (British) R. N. (retired), and a DeHaviland Gypsy Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran...
...authority for calling them together for conferences. Second, it would serve as an information bureau to aid in the forming of new clubs, and give advice as to methods of finance and operation. Third, it would serve as a governing body for intercollegiate competition, and would help to spread interest in aviation among the colleges. In general, it would the intercollegiate aeronautics together into a compact form with a permanent organization...
...cruise we shall take the schooner down the Atlantic coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and up the Western coast. We shall take harpoon guns, fish lines, nets, rifles, tents for camping on shore, and an awning to spread over the deck, so that we can sleep out on hot nights. If anyone has a good boat, he can bring it along too. We are going in search of adventure, and we shall get some...