Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...event, the musical stalls, will be a kind of "Going to Jerusalem" affair in which the entrants will ride round a ring of chairs to the tune of the band. When the music stops the men will dismount and rush for the nearest chair. As there will be one less seat on each round than there are men, the man who fails to find a seat will be eliminated...
...doubles the outcome was less decisive, the visitors winning one out of the three matches played, which was doubtful until the last game...
...business. We have meddled enough. Every element in Russia except a handful of expatriates wants us to keep our hands off. It is a crime for France to stir up Poland to try to be another eatspaw for French interference. It is not much less of a crime for any other government to refuse export licenses to any business man who wants to begin trade with Russia on any terms that suit...
...rain immediately preceding the meet making the ground much too wet for any records. Neither team made any exceptional times. In view of the fact that this was the first contest in which 1923 men have ever competed as a unit, the results were fairly good. Andover, though having less individual stars, has had more experience working together and achieved the victory from consistent second and third-place getting and superiority in the field events...
...failure of the annual collection made by the Seniors from the Freshmen indicates either that the class of 1923 does not appreciate the importance of this custom, or does not realize that the cost of Senior picnics; like everything else, has increased. Two hundred and twelve dollars is worth less than half what it was before the war, but even at its face value, the sum is the least that has been collected in any recent year. The fault does not lie so much with those Freshmen who were present as with that large portion of the class which...