Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Spectators must keep their seats until the game is over. Ushers have instructions to allow no one to stand in the aisles or entrances while the game is in progress. Persons leaving their seats must leave the field...
...building will, of course, be a modern, fire-proof construction, with self-closing doors, stand-pipes and a fire alarm system. Complete ventilating and electrical interconnecting systems will be installed in the new building, and, as far as possible, in those parts of the older building not so equipped. The architects are McKim, Mead and White, who have previously designed the club-house in its successive stages of development, this being the third extensive addition
From time to time, the accusation has been leveled against the college man that he has either shown a tendency to stand aloof from politics, or, what is worse, assume an attitude of bored indifference...
...college. In coming to Harvard, he left behind not only customs and methods to which he had adapted himself, but what is essentially more important--friends. It is, therefore, to be expected that the majority of unclassified students, feeling themselves in a strange environment and without class affiliations, should stand aloof from all College activities on the grounds that they will enter into them after they become better acquainted and receive some definite class standing...
...Copper Duke," by Robert G. Dort, has not enough atmosphere or excitement about it to make a banal invention into an exhilarating plot. Mr. Skinner's "Courtesy of War," a sketch of a French village in war time, has more cultured ease in the telling than the subject can stand. A little more vividness, a little more pungent detail, a little less attention to the courtesies of life along the way, would bring it nearer to that high-water-mark in University war-reporting which has embarrassed a recent Monthly editor with the publicity-mark, "The Kipling of Mexico." Then...