Word: week-ends
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...common complaint heard often from the followers of academic pathways is that so much time must be spent on studies that there is little left for acquiring our education. Though, to put it mildly, this is an exaggeration, the fact remains that for the Student Vagabond at least, the week-end offers a bright and golden opportunity from wanderings from the strictly academic pastures into regions where, to continue the metaphor, he may feed upon the more tender verdure of the art galleries and drink of the sparkling streams of music...
...welcoming hand to such students as have survived the midyear examinations, which by a general consensus of opinion have been harder than ever before. Minds which have been wound up like a spring for the semi-annual ordeal feel that they are entitled to the lubrication of a week-end trip. Timetables of trains and steamers and criticisms of New York plays are much in demand...
...most modern, of the University dormitories, and in Lionell Hall, one of the new dormitories just built last year. Members of the Senior class living in these dormitories were requested by the University to turn their rooms over for use of the preparatory school teachers for this week-end, and they responded unanimously. Thus the visitors will have an opportunity to spend, two nights in typical undergraduate surroundings...
Nonchalant, His Royal Highness took a six-room suite at the Waldorf, paid for it a week in advance, then left for a week-end visit at Pawling, N. Y., with a fellow explorer-huntsman, Lowell Thomas, partial biographer of Britain's mysterious hero of the Palestine campaigns, Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (TIME, July...
Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, superintended last week the packing of a small week-end bag. Into it went two nightgowns and three sets of undergarments, all of sheerest silk. Then a sheer afternoon gown. Finally a set of especially made featherweight aluminum toilet articles...