Word: rather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Thanksgiving having become part of an undigested past, everybody settles down to wait for Christmas vacation. The significance of the day has unfortunately been rather widely dissipated in gourmandizing and various other pleasant pursuits. Turkey has assumed the role of the main feature of the day with numerous other foods coming close behind...
...make the dining halls attractive is to have the breakfast hour as long as possible. The House masters have been wise in using their influence to have breakfast extend over a much longer period than is the case at the Freshman Halls and their decision to make the service rather informal at this time would seem to make this possible without greatly increasing the cost. Breakfast will undeniably be the most convenient meal to take in the House and every effort should be made to make the meal as attractive as possible...
...come within thirty cents of breaking even, for be staying home nights he has been able to increase the total value of his meals to $8.20. Evidently he is on the right track so he decides to do this one better and stay home Saturday night too. This is rather a bore because one of his less economical friends plans to celebrate the completion of the week's work by dining in town, but he is going to see this thing through to the finish...
...among the three upper classes. They will be admitted to the House as sophomores, and although a transfer to another House for proper reasons may not be excluded, they will normally make it their home throughout the rest of their college course. They will be required to take, or rather to pay for--a less objectionable way of attaining the same practical result--a certain number of meals in the dining-room every week. Each of them will have his own bedroom and study, or share the study with a chum...
...World War presented a world problem whose magnitude was unparalleled. It was the solution of this problem in the light of self-preservation that Clemenceau had to find. At times he probably overstepped the limits of precedence, always focusing his attention on the end rather than the means, and some have questioned his drastic and dramatic gestures. But he did attain his purpose in spite of the huge odds the first days of the war heaped up against him. It was this direct, energetic, indomitable spirit that made him a figure of world importance. He was one of the last...