Word: serious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate" has had this experience. It has passed through serious times and heard much adverse criticism. But now it is sound, a sheet filled with live thoughts and vigorous ideas...
...ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror for nine hours, culminating in the felling of one citizen, the serious injury of at least two others, an unsuccessful attempt to lynch the Mayor of the City, and the successful lynching of a prisoner charged with a heinous crime,--are but the eruptive symptoms of a disease which has eaten into the fabric of American life...
...four years there and they know the Yard, well. Some of them, undoubtedly, have followed the course of the University's growth very closely. But with equally little doubt it may be said that many of them, at their reunion visits, have spent less time and effort in a serious endeavor to learn the fact of the institution's condition and service than have many alumni who come from a distance. It is human nature. So Harvard will bring them together in Cambridge tomorrow for a real sight-seeing tour. There is evident merit in the plan, both for Harvard...
Record enrolments continue to be reported from nearly all of the Eastern colleges and the heavy tax on rooming accommodations is making the dormitory problem a serious one. Although exact figures are not yet available, there is every indication that most of the colleges are experiencing the largest registration 9in their history...
After several days of preliminary training, football candidates in most of the colleges scheduled to meet the University are now engaged in serious practice under the direction of their coaches. Work has been in progress for just a week at Yale, and for three days at Princeton, while Brown has already picked three tentative elevens in order that plays and signals might be run through...