Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...monopoly that New England has on the letter men in College is not due altogether to the predominant number of undergraduates from the Bay State; for, whereas, 1,432 of the 2,551 registered students come from Massachusetts, the number of athletes from there is proportionately larger. This may be seen in the fact that nearly three percent of the members of the University who are native sons of Massachusetts have won their "H". And in the remaining part of the undergraduate body who come from the 47 other states in the Union, not one percent have achieved their letter...
...best illustration for these figures. Of the five men in College who have been awarded an emblem in this sport, everyone hails from Massachusetts. Track, on the other hand, is the most representative of the major sports, since two out of five, or 40 percent of its letter men, come from outside this state. In baseball, three out of nine "H" men, 33 percent, are not from Massachusetts. In football, the percentage is 30, and in hockey...
...Seniors, to the last man, in ponderous exuberance at their celebration, have unwrapped their flannel trousers from the mothballs in which they have rested from the Freshman Jubilee in '14, and have practised the strange new dance steps which have come in since the polka and the two-step went out of fashion. They do not say much, but from veiled boasts it is to inferred that they expect to show these youngsters of '18 and '19 a thing or two about how to celebrate in real fashion. The senorial gown has been thrown aside, and these mages...
...harshly by Junkertum to the wheel of war. But the history of the world as man constitutes it shows that a like view is fallacious. No cabal of autocratic rulers could have forced a nation, either by lies or threats or cajoling, to that unity for sacrifice which has come over the German people...
...worst come to the worst, it wouldn't be such bad fun to starve...