Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Jane Hamilton Brady of Gladstone, N. J., granddaughter of the Countess of Limerick; Miss Ursula Corning of Litchfield, Conn., daughter of H. J. Corning, Professor of Medicine in the University of Basle, Switzerland; Mrs. Howell H. Howard of Dayton, Ohio; Miss Irene Jamieson, Spokane, Wash., Oxford student; Mrs. Archibald H. Rowan, Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.; Miss Laura Thompson, Lake Forest, Ill..; Mrs. Alexander Tuck of Maryland and Mrs. Wallace Payne Moats of Mexico City...
...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...
...gong. Having for some time concentrated in astronomy--except on foggy nights--I feel quite free to say that John Dont Passout has taken great liberties with the moon. Speaking purely on behalf of that astral body, I wish to state that howsoever much it resembles a gong, a wash boiler, or an ash can, it assuredly IS not. Those who know anything at all about moons realize perfectly well that they are made of green cheese. Professor Wogglebug...
...crawled between the leaves of missionary Bibles to leap out grimacing and twitching, whenever a buck preacher smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark Music. Mississippi roustabouts, limber blackamoors on sunbaked levees hummed it, strummed it; prancing shadows in the Vieux Carr?...
...order were: Michigan 8,856 Texas 5,191 Ohio State 8,757 Syracuse 5,132 Wisconsin 7,643 Chicago 4,989 Pennsylvania 7,626 Pittsburgh 4,874 Harvard 7,035 Yale 4,731 New York U 6,889 Boston 4,302 Nebraska 5,777 Northwestern 4,173 Univ. of Wash. 5,450 Oklahoma 3,882 Fordham 5,433 Kansas 3,838 Cornell 5,232 Missouri 3,660 Univ. of Iowa.. 5,227 The five largest colleges exclusively for women are: Smith, 2,023; Wellesley, 1,583; Vassar, 1,150; Goucher, 1,042 and Mount Holyoke...