Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little real opposition up to the present in the tournament with the exception of his semi-final match with D. S. Ingalls 3L, when he was forced to extra games. Hinkle was badly injured in the nose recently while playing G. D. Debevoise '26, and will be obliged to undergo an operation after the tournament is over that will keep him out of the game nearly two weeks. It is expected, however, that this disability will not be a severe handicap to him today...
...Guest, who is connected with the Detroit Free Press, is well known as a writer of verse on topics of every day life. The whole world of little intimate human experiences is his field, and no incident is too commonplace to undergo an appealing and entertaining metamorphosis under the touch of his skillful pen. Such homely topics as the Saturday night bath in the old wooden tub, or the quiet pleasures of Christmas in a simple country home, are the subjects that are the favorite of this writer of human interest...
...they are not beyond the bounds of reason. Present conditions cannot be allowed to continue--and to grow worse. If there are men in the College who are of the type that have to be watched continually, the rest of us are, or should be, more than willing to undergo inconvenience and a slight personal indignity in order to weed them out . . . Or, as a last resort, the Reading Room could he closed entirely. The Stacks are still there; and it is better to have no Reading Room at all than to depend upon it, only to have...
...fears that such a ridicuious measure as a course in "department and social conventions" will be added to the college curriculum for some time to come. Truly, the Columbia undergraduates would be the laughing-stock of the college world not to mention the general public were he forced to undergo instruction in how to handle a tea-cup, introduce at a formal function, and dress correctly for afternoon calling. "Columbia Spectator...
...master the most all-round athletic ability. The best men in javelin throwing have been, without exception, pentathlon men in their own country. This is very natural, because first-class results demand that a man possess a steel, sinewy, supple body. Shoulders, stomach, thighs, and calf also undergo a tearing strain. The hardest trial is demanded of that part of the body where lies the javelin thrower's soul, namely the elbow...