Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps more than anything else, the Report of the Student Council Committee on Education has made the following newspaper statement approach actuality: "The college of the future, judging by present tendencies, will be decidedly cooperative, with the students sharing control". The report ranks with that of Dartmouth as being the most able document produced by undergraduates in this country. Conclusively it proves that the opinion of the student is valuable...
...With the approach of the Spring season, the organizations which have superimposed themselves apon track and field athletics have illustrated a new the incongruity of their connection with amateur sport. The other day, the Western Conference passed a rule forbidding students at any of the colleges under its jurisdiction to participate in meets held under A. A. U. auspices. Though apparently aimed at the bogie of professionalism, this decree was promulgated as a blow to the prestige of the Eastern clubs that comprise the national governing body...
...must be made. The goods that are offered must be offered at a fair price, and by a fair price I mean one that is not inconsistent with the value which they can give. They must represent also a utility as it seems to be much more difficult to approach a prospect and talk value without being able to demonstrate utility in a high degree...
...spring fever be blamed upon the approach of April, so may the hour examinations. These more or less Jucid intervals of spasmodic scribbling follow closely upon the first bluebird and drift along until the new blades of grass anounce the deadline. At the present moment, any student carrying the normal, any student carrying the normal burden of courses probably has an hour examination or so both before and behind him, and several right under his feet...
...knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss as Mrs. Midget, romanticist atheist--they do not quite approach reality. The one is too boisterously appreciative of the buffoonery in her part; the other is too tautly expressive of the emotive possibilities of hers. Yet it is but fair to admit that they are attempt-a tremendous undertaking. This "painted ship upon a painted ocean.' is not easy to hang...