Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Jarvis Field will be ready for use this afternoon, although they will not be in very good condition. Work has been pushed forward as rapidly as possible during the past week and by Saturday it is hoped that all the courts will be in shape for play. The only thing that can postponed the beginning of play is a sudden change of weather. The courts on Soldiers Field will not be ready until after the Easter vacation...
...spring recess. And if his curiosity leads him to further calculation, he finds that from the end of the spring recess to the beginning of the finals is only a little over five weeks. Then he considers that when he gets home for his "Easter vacation," Easter is a thing of the past, his friends from other colleges will have long since gone back, and his home town will be a deserted village. Then he sighs and marvels at the psychology that moves the powers...
Professor A. S. Johnson, of Cornell University, speaking in the Union last evening on the economic aspects of the war, declared that the most tragic thing of the European struggle is the fact that it was nearly avoided. Now we will see a purification and readjustment, slow to be sure by reason of an inevitable consequence of ill faith and suspicion, but tending ultimately to completer harmony than has existed in Europe for many years. The effects of the war, he said, are unlike those of any previous struggle in that it has affected not special classes of humanity...
Indeed, the average college man is a victim of what Tolstoy termed "the school state of mind",--a state in which every thing scholarly appears a-priori difficult, and the student regards himself not an eager seeker for truth, but a patient forced to receive a distasteful pellet of learning. Probably most men actually apply more alert thought to choosing their clothing and food than to their properly-intellectual tasks...
...great and remarkable thing about this crisis in our country is the unity of opinion and feeling which has been exhibited by all parties and factions in this crisis," said Mr. Ratcliffe. This is the more remarkable because of the domestic trouble and bitter party strife existing just previous to the outbreak...