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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vebellion arose which became a matter of great public notoriety. As it was not directly concerned with the history of morning prayers it will not be repeated here. Arising from the refusal of one man to obey his master it finally grew to a great disturbance which involved almost the whole University. It illustrated well how the whole student body used to stand behind a man in trouble with the authorities, however fair his punishment might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPEL, PAST AND PRESENT | 6/13/1914 | See Source »

...group of pictures of Class Day forming a double page which will be much more appreciated after June 19th. Last and most valuable of all, there are individual pictures of 530 members of the Class, with a short "life" of each. Thus you have preserved a small autobiography of almost every one of your classmates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much of Merit in 1914 Album | 6/2/1914 | See Source »

Cornell is always so powerful on the water that should the University crews triumph, and their excellent condition makes such an outcome not improbable, a dangerous over-confidence would be almost sure to develop, which might prove fatal in the final race with Yale. However, such a result is well worth chancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL TODAY. | 5/26/1914 | See Source »

...first of these qualifications is that magic faculty known to the craft as 'the nose for news.'-that is to say an unerring sense for the occurrence that is worth singling out for attention from the maze of everyday life. But almost as important as this qualification are the other ones, of good sense and high-mindedness. The nose for news is nothing if not accompanied by the capacity to discriminate as to what is fit news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREAT CHANCE IN JOURALISM | 5/26/1914 | See Source »

...thing is certain, however, that with fair weather, the competition Friday and Saturday should be the most spectacular in years, and should lead to the making of several new records, for almost every college is represented by a few individual stars. But with the new scoring system, the first-place man is worth only one point more than the man who finishes second, so that it is not the team with a few individual stars that should win, but the team uniformly strong in every event. Herein lies Yale's chances for victory. Besides stars like Brown, Poucher, Potter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCOLLEGIATES A PUZZLE | 5/26/1914 | See Source »

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