Word: wont
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...promise despite the fact of his lack of years and experience in great educational problems, as that experience is counted today. He is not a specialist in any one field of education, yet he takes a better plea for the cultural studies than the special pleaders are wont...
Inasmuch as the Cerole Francais in conclave assembled has with characteristic boldness decided to continue the ancient tradition by which its members are wont at this season to pit their prowess against that of the associated Teutons, it does now publicly hurl a gallic challenge to its friendly foes of the Deutscher Verein, inviting them to meet the as-yet-unconquered Cercle team anywhere and any day. It does, moreover, with excessive magnanimity not only offer to provide half of the liquid enticement customarily placed at first base, but also agrees to its being of entirely germanic nature. Wherefore...
...only catch cold like the rest of us, and--here the analogy becomes ineffective--be permitted to hibernate for a week in Stillman, we could take advantage of the miserable weather to stay indoors and fortify our minds against them. We need just a week's fortification. But they wont. So we must make the best of a disagreeable thing, realizing that it is tradition, that a preponderating if not appalling number of men have passed through it before, and that in two weeks and three days, for even the most unfortunate of us, life will be flowing once more...
...interested, with the idea that if once fair treatment for the newspapers were secured, the newspapers would reciprocate. There is no doubt that they have had cause for complaint. At times they have been treated by the University or its members with that condescension which railroads were wont to assume toward the public not long ago; and they have turned to it for satisfaction by means of exaggerated stories. These are the days when publicity is the acknowledged course for railroads and big business; they are also the days when members of the University should realize that not only...
Under the new athletic regime at Princeton, which has for a director William W. Roper, the Tigers made a successful bid for more athletic honors than they are wont to secure. They won the championship in wrestling, beyond dispute. After carefully considering all the claimants to the baseball championship it would seem that Princeton is more deserving of this mythical honor than any other institution, with Cornell, Amherst and Williams following in order named. Princeton is awarded the title not because the Tigers won more games or lost less than any of their rivals, but because they did better...