Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years, Mittelbach has become meek and yields to every whim of his parents-in-law. The strain has worn on his nerves, so that he is very near a state of collapse, when his doctor kindly prescribes a journey for his health. Here Mittelbach sees an opportunity to get away from the parents, and to be left alone with his wife whom he adores. The senator, however, decides that he himself will go with the invalid...
...this time less than 50 lives have been returned to the Secretary, every member of the class of 1902 is urged to fill out the blanks as soon as possible, for unless they come in at a faster rate it will be impossible to get out the report by next autumn. Any member of the class who has not received blanks, or having received them has lost or destroyed them, will kindly notify the Secretary at once...
...improvement displayed by the Harvard team was considerable. The team play was the best this season, and the work in general was spirited and effective. At times, however, there was a noticeable tendency to crowd too much in defense of the goal and thus make it hard to get the pack out to the side. It was during such situation at the beginning of the second half that Newtowne succeeded in scoring two goals. Harvard quickly recovered, however, and added three more points to the four made during the first half. Winsor and Rumsey, for Harvard, and Burns and Warnock...
...educational centre, it must be remembered that courses and with the corresponding decrease of weight given to examinations--for which students may be transiently prepared by skilful coaches. Most dropped Freshmen are dropped for want of C's; and it seems harder for a lazy Freshman to get C than it was two years...
...because we intervened in Cuba. This assumes that our intervention in Cuba was perfectly justifiable, and that the situation in South Africa is parallel to that in Cuba before the war. The first is open to argument and the second needs more facts than we are now able to get, due to the "inconspicuous way" in which the press publishes South African news. Occasionally we hear that which leads us to think that the Spanish policy in Cuba was not so yellow as printed and it may be that the present Opposition in England is using some left-over American...