Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholarship awards, in his Senior year Mr. Nichols received a Rhodes Scholarship and went to England where he studied for a year at Balliol College, Oxford. His appointment as assistant dean of Freshmen at Harvard was announced in the spring of 1927, and he returned in the fall to take up his duties as Freshman dean, sharing the responsibility with Mitchell Gratwick '22, who is also resigning at the end of his two years of service. Both men will continue in office until the end of the present college year...
...novel kind of contest in this day of dance marathons and bunion derbies seems highly improbable, and yet today in Cambridge something unique in the field of competitions, a phonograph listening marathon, is to be started. Promptly at 3 o'clock two Harvard students are to take their places in the windows of the Music Box, Cambridge's tiny shop on Holyoke Street, and there begin to listen without once stopping, to all and any one of the some 5000 odd records which the Music Box has in store...
...preliminary trials for the Pasteur Debate, which were to take place Monday night, have been postponed to next Monday, when they will be held at 7.30 o'clock in Sever...
...perhaps been held by selection committees, it has never, I believe, been that of the Trustees and the present pronouncement is meant merely to make this clear. The Trustees have, in fact, often been ready to allow a Scholar who left at the end of two years to take the rest of his scholarship at some later date if he chose to return to Oxford. The scholars do not have to "sign articles" to remain any given time, or even to do any given work. When the note to Dean Nichols reads "tenable specifically for three years", it means...
...competition, it is worth noting that in the past few years I think that only one American has played on the Rugger team and the few men who have rowed have not been Rhodes Scholars. It must be admitted that in Track the Scholars (Colonial as well as American) take a larger share and last year a motion was introduced to limit this. It might also be added that in intramural sports the aliens often occupy a good deal of space. Nevertheless, there is so much talk about the invasion of Oxford by Americans and this is so frequently blamed...