Word: commons
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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That the Obregon government is informally sounding the Republican leaders rather than the outgoing government is only common sense in the circumstances. But the situation is embarrassing and illustrates again the need for a constitutional amendment which shall shorten the period between election and inauguration. In 1860 that weakness nearly destroyed the union, for it permitted traitors in the government to use the government's resources to build up the strength of the secessionists. In 1916, if Mr. Hughes had won, we should have had a very serious situation, with our policy as to Germany suspended for four months...
Freshman debating is now under way as the result of a meeting held in Smith Halls Common Room recently. After a brief outline of the plans for the season by W. S. Holbrook Jr. '21, chairman of the committee on Freshman debating, B. F. Jones '22, President of the Debating Council, supervised the voting for officers and other work of organization...
...Graduate School do not form a homogeneous body grouped by years or in large classes, as in the Law School or the Medical School, but are scattered through a score of different departments. Outside of Conant Hall, the graduate dormitory, the school as a whole has little common life, but in most departments there are clubs or societies of various types which bring together the graduate students in accordance with their special interests. There is also much common association through the Graduate Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House. The favorite haunts of the graduate student are the special laboratories...
...fine thing, and I don't see why it hasn't been done long ago." The country will agree with him. It has no desire to see a man like Governor Coolidge wasting his time in Washington; the decision to make use of him is surely in accord with common sense. And "why it hasn't been done long ago" is a question that seems particularly applicable to numerous things today. Senator Harding shows all along that he realizes well the possibilities for improvements; he has started without delay to do things that should have been done long...
...hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...