Word: violent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Arvin E. Case '17 was recently the victim of a fatal accident at North Sutton, N. H. While alone on a lake near by, he was suddenly seized with a violent attack of heart disease. Unable to save himself, he toppled into the water and, before friends from shore could reach him, drowned...
...best remedy is a shift of responsibility from the courts to the people. This change might be disastrous if effected by a violent transition. The only reasonable change will be by constant, gradual securing of control over the law. No deification of popular will is implied in the proposition. The decisions of the people cannot be called right until they have been tried, but their will and reason should eventually bring a more democratic, satisfactory government...
...piano is used as an accompaniment to folk dancing and other simple forms of exercise, the plan being that which was found very successful during the latter part of the previous winter. The class is intended to give those men who are unable to take part in the more violent forms of exercise an opportunity to secure daily exercise throughout the winter. Regular attendance is not expected...
...appreciation of the fact that Richelieu was still living when John Harvard gave his foundation fund for the school at "New-towne." Academic gowns originated in English law, for in the fourteenth century our ancestors in the universities at Oxford and Cambridge had apparently fully as varied, and as violent tastes, as the comic supplements assure us are the first characteristic of the modern college man. So England made a law which compelled students to cover their rainbow costumes with a dark robe. Oxford obeyed for a time, but forgot the archaic regulations in more lenient times; Cambridge has always...
...years past and with the violent protests of the undergraduates un-heeded, the Corporation has continued to authorize the Bursar to give preference in the allotment of rooms in Hollis and Stoughton to double applications for single rooms. Using a single room for living and sleeping is distinctly unpleasant and not infrequently unhealthy. Granted that there were room for two beds, desks, bureaus, book-cases, tables, and the like, in these rooms, which there is not, it is still asking too much to expect one tired man to lie awake while his room-mate pounds his typewriter or entertains...