Word: commonly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Owing to the holiday tomorrow, the Freshman meeting which was to have been held in Smith Halls Common Room tonight will not be given. Bishop Lawrence '71, who was scheduled to speak tonight will speak later in the year. On next Monday evening Dean Brown of the Yale School of Religion will address the Freshmen...
There will be a Freshman mass meeting in the Common Room of Smith Halls this evening at 7 o'clock. This is the result of action taken by the Committee on Freshman Affairs of the Student Council of which, since the resignation of E. A. McCouch '20, J. S. Higgins '20 is the chairman. This gathering will be for the purpose of stimulating enthusiasm and backing for the 1923 eleven which battles with the Princeton yearlings in the Stadium tomorrow; also to practice songs and cheers...
...lack of contact with the professors, or insufficient stimulation of originality, or the uninspiring personality of some section-men, many would-be students acquire late, or do not acquire at all, that absorption in their work which brings the greatest satisfaction. To this cause is due the remark common among graduates: "If I were going through again, I'd work harder," and the attitude common among undergraduates: "It isn't the things you learn in college, it's the friends you make, etc." Friends are a normal accompaniment of normal living; it cannot be denied that studies should...
...indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
...assigned or recommended in a book of which only one copy has reached the libraries of Greater Boston, certain lovers of learning usually appropriate it from the shelves of Widener two days before the hour examination and browse through it. When the examination has passed the book reappears. Common considerations of honesty and fair play do not deter these people; they brave the fear of discovery and the wrath of the librarian in their omnivorous search for knowledge. To call these people schoolboys is to understate the case; a schoolboy sometimes doesn't know any better...