Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eyes turn toward Washington, what do we see? Our august Senators and Representatives are preparing to take a two weeks vacation. While individually they urge increased work on the part of everyone else, collectively they vote themselves a fortnight's holiday. The words of Governor Coolidge in speaking of the Massachusetts Legislature apply equally well to Congress; service as a representative, voluntarily undertaken, cannot be looked upon as a job; it is a trust, and one not lightly to be cast aside...
...first glance the results of Saturday's games will cause jubilation among Harvard followers. Brown defeated; Yale downed by Boston College, losers to the University team a fortnight ago; all this in highly encouraging...
About thirty members of the society were present, to whom Professor Lowes spoke, and several poems were read. Meetings will continue every fortnight throughout the year...
...extend their honors to the diamond today when the honor societies of the two universities meet at Now Haven at 10 o'clock this morning. A victory by the locals will prove the lack of necessity of the compulsory athletic program to be instituted at Cambridge next year. A fortnight of successful work-outs have made the University honor men the favorites over the line representing Yale...
...encounter with their rivals from New Haven. When the parade wends its way onto Soldiers Field before the contest let it be the Class of 1922 in its entirety that enters the stands to support its nine, and to retrieve the honors captured by Yale in the Stadium a fortnight...