Word: unites
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...answer comes from A. E. Crawley, an English authority. Tennis, it seems, was invented about 1200 when the usual arithmetical unit was sixty, because it was so conveniently divisible--this was before the use of decimals. It was always played for a stake, usually a crown (60 sous) per game of four strokes. Thus the winner of the first stroke was the recipient of 15 sous from his opponent. If he was a good player he won 30, then 45 (this number is still used in France to some extent) and finally sixty (our game...
...this issue of the CRIMSON appears the report of the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council. It is not our purpose here to discuss this report in detail; it is in itself a complete unit, containing a true analysis of the present situation, some extremely valuable suggestions, and the arguments in favor of the changes it recommends. The Committee is to be congratulated upon its very excellent work...
...facade of the new library will be dedicated singly to every American college and university siding in the reconstruction. The roll call of America's educational centers will encircle Louvain's literary treasures. The seals, shields, and coats of arms of every institution making a gift as a unit will he emblazoned on the Library's pillars. Nor will the actual personnel of the working forces be forgotten. In an illuminated, gold-cased volume, to repose in an especially designated niche in Louvain's halls, will be inscribed the names of all who helped to make the American undergraduates' gift...
...know is as it is, it might be evident that this is Mr. Marquand's first book from the fact that it starts a little "hard". Things do not move along quite easily unit the first crash and oath...
...same paper we find Mr. Gavit's first article on Harvard; wherein he indicates the present problem of the University is to take "the unit of education, the Boy," and "make out of him all that it is possible to make." Purpose such as this implies that the students must not be classified in any such manner as to label them in fact or in effect, the "eager" and the "unwilling"; but the suggestion that all be treated as of the "eager" class is, or ought to be, a fundamental principle of the college. Cortainly that great freedom given...