Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students to thwart him, but he managed to supply an extra clapper, or to break out the ice in the bell, or do whatever else was necessary. When the bell became cracked, he asked the University to sell it to him and it was given to him as a token of his services. He kept it in his house for some years, until the Memorial Society obtained it from him for a special purpose. It was melted up into tablets which are now fastened on the outer walls of some of the Senior Dormitories...
...quaint sanctum of the Lampoon yesterday afternoon a medal inscribed "Lampy to Francis W. Saunders for the Best Artistic Work of his Year" was presented to that editor in token of his winning the $1500 Scholarship award for foreign study, offered this year for the first time to "the Senior editor with the most deserving artistic or literary merit...
...indicative of a condition which is universal among college students, as is very likely, the man who was murdered some seasons ago for saying that undergraduates were more intelligent today than when he was in college should be awarded a niche in the Hall of Fame as a slight token of apology from a repentant society. His statement, apparently, had some slight foundation of fact...
...would resent here at Harvard any action by an association which attempted to standardize or formulate detailed eligibility rules to control all our games with Yale and Princeton. We recognize in this instance an independence acquired by an athletically related group and by the same token standardization of eligibility rules by High Schools is impossible...
...same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved...