Word: laycock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great was its encouragement when the returns from a by-election for the Buckrose division of Yorkshire, showed that Major A. N. Brathwaite (Conservative) had won, receiving 12,089 votes, as opposed to 10,537 cast for Sir Harry Verney (Liberal) and only 2,191 for H. C. Laycock (Laborite...
Captain Ashenbach, Coach Hawley, Dean Laycock and Clark Tobin '09, a member of the Green advisory staff and himself a former football star addressed the two thousand undergraduates who filled the gymnasium last night. All the speakers emphasized the fact that although the game Saturday is not the Green's only objective this year, the Dartmouth eleven would enter the Stadium, to win or lose, an inspired group...
...Dean Laycock of Dartmouth has announced with a touch of pride that hereafter seniors at the college will be treated as "absolutely free men". He purposes "to recognize that a senior has presumably reached years of discretion and has learned to use careful judgment". He agrees to accede to the request of every senior who considers that he has a reasonable right to expect his petition to be granted...
Such is Dean Laycock's proposition; but what does it really amount to? It does not apply to college rooms, to regulations regarding college studies, and only partially to cuts. One is tempted to wonder, too, if a student can obtain all the desires of his heart merely by insisting that they are reasonable. At any rate, it seems that "abolutely free men" is a little too broad a phrase...