Word: affections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the object of affording an opportunity to members of different colleges and universities to meet and discuss together the problems common to all. They are held each summer under the auspices of a central committee, and are of a religious character. The problems discussed are all those which affect the growth and welfare of colleges, with the general aim of moral and educational progress through the co-operation of representative students of the various institutions. The business of the Conference goes on in the morning and evening, leaving the afternoon free for informal athletic competition of various kinds between...
...following first-term make-up examinations will be held in Sever 5 at 3.30 P. M. this afternoon. The half holiday granted by the College will not affect these examinations...
...reveal a nature never quite integnated into wholeness of structure, into harmony with itself. His writing, at its best, is noble and delightful, full of human charm, but it is difficult for him to master a certain waywardness and to sustain any note steadily. This temperamental flaw does not affect the winsomeness of his letters, unless to add to it. It is lost to view, often, in the sincerity and pathos of his lyrics, but it is felt in most of his longer efforts in prose, and accounts for a certain dissatisfaction which many grateful and loyal readers nevertheless feel...
...mere fact that peace has been declared should not affect either the S. A. T. C. or the Junior S. A. T. C. The members of the latter organization are particularly fortunate because they are getting double credit for their work. Besides getting credit for the college degree they are also getting credit with the government, and a man who has a good record in the Junior Company will be considered as officer material as soon as he has reached the proper...
...matter of education is one of timely interest and importance just now, for the war is sweeping away many old ideas and creating new ones that will materially affect the coming generation. We realize now that the interchange of instructors between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more...