Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the approach of the Christmas season there reappears that phenomenon, common to periods just before and after all vacations, of the untoward depletion of undergraduate ranks. Dean's List men take their legitimate departures, but not they alone; those individuals who remain behind find themselves burdened by the necessity of doing double and even triple duty in the matter of classes; and monitorial slips come to bear even less than their customary relation to actual facts of attendance and more to the monitor's circle of acquaintance. Residences are juggled curiously; individuals who are commonly supposed to live...
...needed, is a more generous appreciation by each side of the difficulties of the other side. On each side there is need of patience with what seems the unreasonableness of the other side. The fundamental problem may not be settled. It may, however, be understood if men will approach it with less feeling and more intelligence...
These opinions have been repeated, with varying emphasis and from different lines of approach, by other college presidents and educators. But the most vigorous pronouncement of all came this week from Dr. Stewart Paton, the psychiatrist of Princeton University and trustee of the Carnegie Institution at Washington. He calls football as played today "a menace to the mental and physical welfare of the players, upon whom its long, grilling practices and tense games impose an often unbearable physical strain." Fortified by investigations into the case of a boy who was found to have played through a whole game...
Rear Admiral Billard's appearance today is especially significant in view of the imminent increase in activities along Rum Row, which are sure to occur with the approach of the holiday season...
Conservative chests puffed out for but a little while however. When all the returns were in, the election was found to have ended in the nearest approach to a deadlock in the history of the Dominion. The final results...