Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...small that it could be put inside the dining room in Memorial Hall, is the oldest university building in the United States. The two hundredth anniversary of its erection falls within the present College year, and plans are under way for the suitable commemoration of the event. The great and General Court made a grant of 8500 pounds in 1718 for the building of a "new college" to be named in honor of the province, and in 1720 the hall was completed. Princeton's "Old Nassau" goes back only to 1756. Massachusetts faced the original Harvard Hall which was destroyed...
...great majority of the Freshmen, however, have entered these regular sports, either as candidates for the 1923 team or in the sections practicing under Coaches Anderson, Connoly, Danguy and others. One of the most interesting of the sections is that under Connoly in the boxing room of the Hemenway Gymnasium. Usually over fifty men are sparring with an imaginary partner at the same time with the result that in the neighborhood of 150 men report there for glove work at least three times a week...
...Dramatic Club has departed this year from its established policy of producing only original plays written by students of the University, and in the future plans to give plays by great European dramatists, of which few have ever been produced before in America. This year the club has chosen two plays, Lord Dunsany's one-act comedy, "Fame and the Poet," and Holberg's "Erasmus Montanus," a comedy translated from the Danish by the late Frederick Schenk '09 and O. J. Campbell. Both plays will be given at each performance...
...members of the football team have almost unanimously expressed themselves in favor of making the trip, both from personal reasons and on account of the great increase of interest in the University and in the Endowment Fund Drive it would cause...
...combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation...