Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale has decided to do away with the English style of rigging with thole-pins instead of oar-locks, an experiment introduced by Coach Nickalls. The Yale squad has acquired two new shells of the American type, together with a new coaching launch which will be ready as soon as outdoor work begins. Indoor training started at New Haven last week...
...Chapman, "Greek Genius," and "Memories and Milestones"; Winston Churchill, "A Far Country"; Frank Danby, "Nelson's Legacy"; M. Lucien Descaver, "The Colour of Paris"; Arthur Elson, "The Book of Musical Knowledge"; St. John G. Ervine, "Eight O'clock"; A. D. Ficke, "The Man on the Hilltop"; Carl R. Fish, "American Diplomacy"; Richard Le Gallienne, "Vanishing Roads"; John Galsworthy, "The Freelands"; N. V. Gogol, "Dead Souls"; Maxim Gorky, "My Childhood"; Ivan Goucharov, "Oblomov"; C. E. Gouldsbury, "Tiger Slayer by Order"; Harvard Club of Boston, "Year-Book, 1915-16"; Harvard Club of New York City, "Constitution, By-Laws, etc."; Lafcadio Hearn, "Interpretations...
...group I: English 41 will not be given; English 26 hf., Contemporary Literature, English and American, is a new course; French 3 and 4 will meet three instead of four times a week; Comparative Literature 19 hf., The Forms of the Drama, will be open for the first time to undergraduates; Fine Arts 1f., Principles of Landscape Architecture, is given for the first time in the College; Fine Arts 3c hf., The Athenian Acropolis, will be a new course...
...favorite occupation of socialists and other "radicals" to rain abuse upon the college student for his conservatism. The Alumni Bulletin quotes, for example, the following from a recent book by John Macy '99: "Nothing could be more solidly conservative than American undergraduate youth. Many Russian students are rebels. But American universities can be trusted not to bring forth a revolutionary brat--their twilight sleep is perpetual." The Bulletin disagrees, and gives some instances to prove that there is no "lack either of professors and students with thoughts of their own, or of avenues for their self-expression...
...from daily newspapers. This may or may not be an effective device to induce original thinking. Strong and radical opinions, startlingly expressed, usually do have the virtue of awakening thought at least in opposition. There is no danger that the state will be overthrown by the ideas of most American collegians; but there is great danger that too many of them will become more insensible cogs in the wheels of the established machinery...