Word: surely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate of all classes deserve praise for at least two reasons. Their current number is not in the least "high brow." It is entirely and frankly unpretentious, and frank unpretentiousness is not invariably a characteristic of undergraduate writing. Also it seldom offends by incorrectness of expression. To be sure, one is obliged to ask himself in reading the review of Mr. Masefield's "Good Friday and Other Poems," whether usage has sanctioned as English idiom the illogical phrase, "centre about"? One must also ask himself what the reviewer of Mr. Conrad's "Within the Tides" means in speaking...
This meet is open only to members of the Union, but a limited number of tickets will be given out at Thayer 38 on Monday night from 7 until 10 o'clock. Anyone who wishes to be sure of one of these tickets should apply to the manager of the University wrestling team, Thayer...
Perhaps no one would contend that the entertainment provided at the Freshman smokers should be of a super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic...
...members of the Regiment who should be on the list of those excused from lectures and are not sure whether they are on that list or not, may call, at Headquarters to verify the same...
...committee is sure that the indoor games will develop slowly but successfully and combine the interests of the athletes and spectators as well...