Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been nominated for a place on the library board this year who is not a member is an indication of this. The clause in the constitution permitting additional nominations to be made on petition of fifty members fails to help matters much, because the securing of fifty signatures is almost a prohibitive task. Nomination by petition should be made easier. Otherwise there is bound to be a feeling of dissatisfaction in the Union, and this will defeat its primary purpose...
...former years, between 30 and 40 men have reported for these trials, while this year only 15 have thus far shown any interest. It is almost impossible to choose two good teams and two alternates, eight men in all, out of the present 15 candidates. Unless an immediate and widespread response is made, the chances for developing winning teams will be small...
...exercises a right of selection according to a man's character and all-round ability from say the sixty-five high stand men in the class. It is understood to elect men somewhat on a basis of character when as a matter of fact it elects them on an almost absolute basis of scholarship--marks being in the long runs, the best indication of scholarship. Consequently the general opinion is often that the Society is short-sighted in its choice of men, and it loses prestige. Make it purely honorary for the thirty of forty high stand...
...generations of mankind are three in a century; of a college they are one in four years. And when men or customs are beyond the college memory of the Senior class, however powerful their influences may be, they are often forgotten. It is almost five years since Dr. Eliot, who had been President Eliot for forty years became President Emeritus, and there is danger, though he is still a familiar figure among us and though the University which he builded is about us, that we will not appreciate the relation between the work and the man. In the year...
...negative team, which will meet Princeton here, is composed of L. Brewer 3L., B. H. Knollenberg 1L., F. Stern 3L., and R. L. West '14. As was the case last year, the affirmative team is composed entirely of young undergraduates with little former experience, while the negative team is almost wholly composed of graduates who have had long experience, R. L. West '14 being the only undergraduate on it. However; it is not to be assumed that the immaturity of the younger team will prove a weakness, for each man has shown marked ability, Bovingdon and Epstein having won Pasteur...