Word: abler
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Latin shall be one; and that the candidate shall have the option of offering as his second foreign language either Greek or French or German. It is felt that the existence of classical entrance scholarships will effectually promote the study of Greek at the university by many of the abler...
...sport. The freshmen, on the other hand, have been permitted to play against their natural rivals, Yale and Harvard, and have also gone in for contests against preparatory school teams. Why intercollegiate sport should be bad for upper classmen, and at the same time good for freshmen, would require abler inductive resources than the writer possesses to determine. Harvard and Yale, which stand rigidly against university teams made up of upper classmen, have permitted their freshmen to organize and conduct intercollegiate contests and have never attempted to explain this inconsistency. Intramural sport is an excellent, in fact a vitally necessary...
...make a large cash contribution than to carry the insurance in their first few years out of College, and also, that the insurance idea contemplates an equal division of the burden, while on the twenty-fifth anniversary or at any time, some members of the class will be much abler and readier than others to make large subscriptions to the fund. Plans for such a subscription system are being arranged for the class...
...rather petty arguments are the great facts that men are anxious to take more English Composition and that it is not to make them great writers but more efficient men in any field that Composition is taught at all. No matter what the sphere of life, the man is abler in proportion as he can express himself more clearly and fluently in his mother tongue. The absence of a course in English. Composition which C men in English A can take during their Sophomore year is a gap which should be filled; let the average man feed upon...
Senator Beveridge stated that he preferred a Conservative Republican administration to a Democratic because of the fact that the Democratic party is not qualified to be the party in power. It contains the elements of opposition and not of construction. The last Democratic administration was a failure, with abler men in control than the party can boast of today...