Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victorian England saw Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as a promising young mathematics lecturer at Oxford with his treatises attracting attention in academic circles. When in an unguarded moment he wrote "Alice in Wonderland," the use of a pseudonym did not serve to veil the identity of the author. He was annoyed at his trivialities attracting public notice--so annoyed that he snubbed the great Victoria when she manifested interest. He did not wish his professional career blighted by a light comedy reputation...
Reports of the various committees engaged in the work of the House will be read a the meeting, by the chairmen of the respective divisions. The reports will be published in the Thursday morning issue of the CRIMSON, and will be latter bound in pamphlet form for use in the future records of the organization...
...able to take to outdoor diamonds yesterday afternoon for the first practice games of the training season. Owing to the rather soft condition of the turf, the Harvard nine, confined to the cage since last Tuesday when it went out for a brief session of batting practice, did not use the regular diamond, but limited itself to one of the class fields...
...Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics is in charge of a new field of concentration, and is in no sense a new department. This new field of concentration does not supplant the department of Social Ethics, but makes a large use of the courses which will continue to be given in that department...
...hero of poetry, Abdul, the Bul-bul Emir, would be ashamed of his countrymen if he could, know the present sad condition of Turkish manhood. When the movies were introduced into Turkey a comparatively short time ago the promoters of the new form of amusement copied the methods in use in America in their production, and evidently designed their theaters after American models. But they failed to consider the requirements of their public. When the tired business men of that city invaded the new sources of entertainment they found to their dismay that seats designed for athletic citizens...