Word: advent
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...long been a custom for students to subscribe for a professional band at football games. With the advent of the University Band this custom has been done away with. Instead of a small professional organization at only the bigger games, Harvard rooters, for two seasons, have sung to the accompaniment of and paraded behind their own band, reputed, this year, to be the biggest and best collegiate band in the country...
...readjustment of certain phases of undergraduate life which followed the advent of the Freshman Dormitories six years ago led to the formation of an agreement between a number of the clubs regulating the election of members...
...With the advent of the war in 1914, he was one of the first to enlist, and served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers for five years, both in France and in Palestine, and for meritorious conduct was awarded the Military Cross and advanced to the rank of captain. This long period of carnage and fighting turned his mind to the serious aspects of the struggle, and his poems and letters began to deal with "the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed," with the result that his case came up for discussion in the House...
...remaining skeptics the fallacy of the argument that women would exercise the franchise under fundamentally different political conceptions from men. But the important fact remains,--that Democracy has been vindicated as a national institution, compassing the prerogatives of any individual state or states, by the approaching advent of several million women into our National political life...
...experience contributes to knowledge, but experience is not knowledge unless properly classified and put under control. At college the classics used to be the instruments of mental disciplining. Since they have been abandoned, to all intent and purpose, with the advent of the elective system, students are apt to make the mistake of thinking that all the secrets of the world are to be stored in their minds in four brief years (a task that ages of men have not accomplished), and with this wild hope they neglect to search themselves, see wherein they are weak where a course...