Word: taken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bringing guests from a distance will find other matters on their hands besides enchantment. In reserving rooms at the Ritz, the Vagabond suggests action by the middle of the week. If this business is left until Friday there is chance that most of the better rooms will have been taken...
...recent count taken at the postoffice through which most Harvard mail goes on its outward trip reveals that an average of 60 letters a day is sent by students to Wellesley College. To Smith go half as many, 30 per day. Vassar girls receive but 20 a day, and Bryn Mawr places a poor fourth with but 12 daily...
After "Street Girl", current attraction at the University Theatre, has been seen, one wonders why there aren't more like it. It is another all talking-singing-dancing picture, but not just another one. Betty Compson, having taken unto herself a French accent, combines with Jack Oakie and Ned Sparks, to give cinema patrons one of the snappiest and most delightful musical movies to date. The entire picture has a certain swing that is sure to captivate one, and, contrary to most movies of its type, "Street Girl" has a continuity to it that keeps it from the bromidal class...
Obstreperous journalists, undergraduate and metropolitan, might well undergo a certain amount of chest expansion at the news that one of their chance shots at improving the existent system of college athletics, has taken effect. Massachusetts Agricultural College is the proving ground: the goat is basketball, or possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport...
...same way, courses taken to satisfy requirements of distribution form the greater part of those containing between 200 and 300. Mathematics C has 263; Mathematics A. 261; Biology A, 261; Geology 4, 241; English 41, 209; Philosophy A, 221; Chemistry A, 209; Physics C. 207; Philosophy B, 203; English...