Word: use
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock in the morning until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and from 5.30 o'clock to 8 o'clock in the evening. Heretofore the Union has served meals from 7.30 A. M. until 12 P. M., but this old plan has been abolished owing partly to the little use made of the dining room after 8 P. M., and also to reduce the running expenses of the Union...
...point of view and emphasized five points in regard to it: that any man desiring to be educated and cultivated must have an intimate knowledge of the book, which is of so much importance in English life, and literature; that as a means of discipline in the use of clear, forcible English, its study is invaluable; that as a book of earnest thought it cannot be overlooked; that it is the greatest of all moral guides and religious helpers; and that its common study will bring together the thoughtful, earnest men of the University. After the talk men were afforded...
...another so rapidly that it is no fault of the newcomers if they are ignorant how worn are many of the terms that delight them with their novelty and fitness. How much fresher and more individual would critical articles in the Monthly be if authors were forbidden to use such terms as these, selected from a single article in the current number: "Finely critical," "sensuous couplets," "instinctive felicity," "subtilely conscious," "meretricious!" What a relief if we should never again meet the parenthetic "then" near the beginning of a Harvard sentence...
Owing to the fact that the Stadium stands had not been officially inspected, as required by the State law, it was impossible to use them and consequently the practice had to be held on the old field...
General regulations governing the use of application blanks will be found on each blank. Applications may be obtained at Wright & Ditson's, in Boston; at the Union, Leavitt & Peirce's, Amee Bros'., and at the Co-operative Society in Cambridge. The management cannot answer communications requesting a change in seats after the allotment. There will be no carriage stands and no standing room, and bicycles will not be allowed within the gates...