Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplishment." ¶Summar Biakemore, head of the junior department of the Rye, N. Y., Country Day School, classmate of Calvin Coolidge at Amherst, died, last week, at Port Chester, N. Y. ¶On one of the first hot mornings in Washington this year, the President took his usual morning walk, had breakfast at 8:00 o'clock-eating his first canteloupe of the year-at 9:00, went to his office, where the hot sun poured in at the bay window at his back. He felt ill, returned to the White House where his two physicians attended him. Soon...
...effect it has on the individual in respect to his relations with his fellows. There is none of the spontaneity of youth in Cambridge, that is to be seen on all sides in Willianstown. A friendly slapping on the back is ground for an action of battery, and to walk arm in arm is almost immoral. The playful spirit in which you live on your Rousseauistic stage is here relegated to children below the age of 14 years, and any signs of horseplay are taken as evidence of a breach of the Volstead...
...boire" is what we feel like yelling after an hour or two of reading in the library. To satisfy this need, which is particularly pressing at this time of the year, we must walk down two long flights of steps to the wash room in the basement of the library, and attempt to quench our thirst with the luke warm water of the faucet. This process takes five or ten minutes...
...usual way, to the commencement dinner, the college has sent out unusual instructions, telling the graduates what will be expected of them in the way of manners. Among the men so invited and so instructed are the survivors of the Yale class of 1875, who are to walk near the head of the commencement procession, in commemoration of the fifty years that have passed since they left New Haven. I am one of those few survivors...
...appears they are having the same sort of trouble with their Freshmen at Princeton but it manifests itself in just the opposite way. The Princeton Freshmen won't wear their green caps, they walk on the grass, and refuse to change clothes more than three times a day--and they flaunt their insubordination in the faces of the Sophomores. It is easy to see that the situation has become unbearable, for the Chairman of the Sophomore Vigilance Committee in a letter to the Princetonian complains of Princeton indifference on this all-important question. In spite of the fact that...