Word: refraining
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Further improvements on the Stadium will be made slowly, as the policy of the Athletic Association is to refrain from increasing the debt already incurred on the structure...
...band started "Up the Street" at 1.53, and the Harvard side of the field took up the refrain with singing and whistling. At 1.55 the Yale team came on the field. Clarkson led a cheer for Yale while the Yale team was going through signal practice...
...more rehearsal will be held before the Yale game, and the words of the songs should therefore be known throughout tonight. Copies may be found at Leavitt & Peirce's, and the Union office after 1 o'clock. A new march has been written and the words of its refrain printed on the slips...
While each heart echoes this refrain...
...where the artist, the individual, has upper hand from the start." After the distinction between these two forms is established, each is treated in its relation to external influences. Special force is here laid on the nature and growth of communal poetry, including songs of mourning, bridal songs, the refrain, flytings, festal refrains and the dance. This general subject fills the last part of the book, including four chapters...