Word: acquaintances
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University of Michigan has established a system of meetings compulsory for Freshmen at which various members of the faculty speak informally for a half-hour on subjects of interest to students newly come to the university. These talks are on college ideals and traditions; and these meetings tend to acquaint the students with well-known faculty members and with college modes of life. . . It is evident that the Freshmen . . . cannot hope to become familiar with the ways of college without some exterior assistance. They remain an amorphous but unamalgamated group in their present situation, and some definite means should...
...Taming of the Shrew" is a healthy antidote for the overdose of feminism we are getting today. It is somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...
Where two men can get acquaint...
...order to acquaint himself with every possible detail of prison life, Mr. Osborne at one time served a voluntary term of six weeks in the Auburn Prison. During this time he lived exactly as a prisoner, complying with all the regulations of the institution...
...first-string backfield of the University football team will be held in the Varsity Club this evening at 6.30 o'clock. H. H. Gardner '13 and D. C. Waison '16 will speak. The purpose of this series of talks, which will continue through the spring practice, is to acquaint the men with the finer points of the game which cannot be learned on the field. The players, particularly the quarterbacks, will be given problems and propositions to work out. This system was tried successfully two years ago, but was not used last year...