Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rinks at the Stadium this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The first game for the 1918 players will take place on January 16 when they will play Pomfret at Pomfret. At present the 1918 squad numbers about 25 men and there will probably be another cut within the next fortnight...
Princeton's new $300,000 athletic field, the Palmer Stadium, will be opened next Saturday for the game with Dartmouth. Work on the structure has been rushed for the past fortnight and it is certain of completion by Friday...
...mentioned the first public debates. "The Undergraduates shall in their course declaim publicly in the Hall, in one of ye three Learned Languages. The Senior Sophisters shall dispute publicly in the Hall once a week till the tenth of March. Resident Bachelours shall dispute in the Hall once a fortnight (from ye tenth of September to the tenth of March) on such questions as the President directs." The celebrations at these events caused the following order: "If any scholar be guilty of drunkenness, he shall be fined 5 shillings and make a public confession. No undergraduate shall keep...
...Fogg Museum of Art will exhibit for the next fortnight a series of book-plates engraved by the late Edwin Davis French. The prints, about one hundred and seventy-five in number, are a loan to the Museum from Mr. la Rose's collection; and, as they are all artist's proofs, they will afford the amateur of book-plates a better opportunity of studying Mr. French's work than has ever been offered since the Grolier Club's exhibition several years ago. Of special local interest will be the plates which French engraved for the Harvard Library...
...thorough 24-hours-a-day test of its engineering equipment, by all its engineering students, working in eight-hour shifts. Harvard, to be sure, has no such test of its material equipment in store; but an equally thorough probing of Harvard's mental furnishings is scheduled to begin a fortnight hence. Vacation, according to an old tradition, is for the immediately following period somewhat demoralizing as well as refreshing. So it may not be amiss to sound a warning, time-worn but always pertinent, that the test of "Mid-years" is at hand, and therein is to be found...