Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...surprise was sprung on the first University football team yesterday when Coach Paul Withington '09 brought Team A of 1923 into the Stadium for a scrimmage. This was the last scrimmage before the two games on Saturday, when the University come up against the fast Colby team and the Freshman meet Worcester Academy at Worcester...
Twenty miles south of Dijon, France, an American university, which gives thoroughly adequate instruction in all the recognized courses given in most colleges, has sprung up almost overnight. Beaune University, lately called into existence by and for the American Expeditionary Forces, already boasts one of the finest educational plants in the world. Within a space of time measured not merely by months but by weeks, army engineers have succeeded in converting army stores and supplies into a vast collegiate equipment including laboratories, gymnasium, class and demonstration rooms, as well as vocational work-rooms of many sorts, all in a surprisingly...
...That country is one which has founded not only its social and economic systems, but its politics, on free white labor. All Asiatic and all semi-servile workers have been excluded. There is no foreign or mobile labor. Every worker is a politician, and every politician has at least sprung from the workers. The maintenance of the Commonwealth on its present basis depends on the presence of an industrial body of workingmen in Australia itself. The Labor party, in short, cannot spare any more political units to fight the war--or thinks it cannot. It is a case of Australia...
...been suspended at the University, and for the time being no other form of competitive athletics have taken their place, other universities and colleges have not so completely cancelled their sports. At the universities where all intercollegiate contests have been cancelled, regimental and other forms of athletic games have sprung up, and the regular university teams have wound up their season with the election of next year's captain. At several others, intercollegiate sports appear to be taking their natural course, although the teams have been somewhat depleted by the entrance of the undergraduates into military service...
This December has witnessed a French Revolution of Lilliputian dimensions, with Committees of Safety, Tribunals and Robespierres appearing to defend strange principles and candidates of questionable qualifications for governing this diminutive republic of four hundred citizens. Social and political factions have sprung from superficial causes of difference hitherto unknown. Campaigning, electioneering and forming of combinations have been rife. In fact the supposedly mature, intelligent Seniors of Harvard University have descended to the low, despicable methods of a well-conducted Tammany Hall election, in order to elect twenty-two class officers...