Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today, with the opening of College, the Union will formally open its doors for the season. For the first three weeks of the term all its privileges, including that of admission to Viscount Bryce's lecture, will be extended to all members of the University. After Wednesday, October 12, however, only members will be admitted, the membership fee being $7.50 for men who have previously belonged, and $10 for new members. Students may register at the office of F. B. Foster '17, the new graduate manager. Membership fees may as usual be charged upon the term bill...
...Viscount Bryce, distinguished British statesman and man of letters, will give the opening lecture of the year at the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. President Lowell will preside at the meeting, which will be open to all members of the University. While in Cambridge Viscount Bryce will be the guest of President Lowell and will be entertained at dinner by the President before the lecture...
...receive not less than half a dozen challenges from the leaders of the opposition. As the challenger always pays the expenses, the person challenged usually arranges his acceptances in order of the social standing of his adversary, it being considered a bit ulcer to be killed by a former Viscount than by a mere Captain of Hussars. Rival store-keepers now settle their differences with sword and pistol rather than by cutthroat competition. Most important of all, a student who has been "flunked" by his instructor invariably calls...
...been said of Lord Grey that he has many sides: the Liberal side, the Foreign Office side, and the side that delights in fly-fishing, country walks, and friendship. Viscount Grey himself says that this last is his only true side--and from it has sprung the inspiration for his latest book, "Recreation." In this essay, which he delivered as his speech at the Union last December, the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Great Britain, discusses with color, clearness, and charm the place of recreation in a well ordered life, dealing most fully with the pastimes, which have given...
Recreation: by viscount Grey of Fallodon. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston...