Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refers particularly to Dartmouth, which, since it has launched upon a career of excellence, has been quite tactless in its expulsions. Nearly 300 Sophomores and Juniors, as well as Freshmen, were expelled last midyear. "It was pitiful," says Mr. Blake, "to see the distress. Some were from the far West and were sent off in the midst of a severe winter." And he ends, or rather he begins, by demanding: "What is the aim of Dartmouth...
...them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks and cottas and, either in church...
...Union Theological Seminary in New York City, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Officers of the University will enter at the north door and students will enter at the south door unless accompanied by friends, in which case they will use the west entrance...
...University fencing team will go into their meet tonight at New Haven with the odds slightly against them, for the comparative scores are in Yale's favor. Although the University team has had a very successful season, losing only the match with West Point on March 12 by the score of 6-5, Yale has done even better, defeating West Point 10-7. The latter did, however, drop a game to the strong Navy team. The one match seeming to indicate a Harvard victory was that with the Dartmouth team, which was defeated 7-2 by the University and only...
According to the CRIMSON census lately made, summer will scatter the undergraduates far and wide. More than one-half of the college intends to travel. Of this number the percentage going West and the percentage going abroad is very nearly equal. In general, going West has no formidable connotation, but means a ranch or a pack-trip with an unconscious study of the art of Nature; while a trip abroad means steamers and hotels, with a very conscious study...