Word: certaines
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard system; the second promises to aid materially in its preservation. The trophy will doubtless prove a real inducement to good work by future entrants. It would be expecting too much to suppose that the effect of the trophy will be anything like immediate, but it is certain that the school which gets the trophy will not want to give it up, and that the others will do their best to win it from...
There is an unfortunate impression among some students that this library is a musty collection of antiquated books, of interest only to certain mysterious persons known as scholars. This is by no means the case, as the complete sets of such authors as Charles Reade, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith and the mid-Victorians testify. Warren House contains also an excellent collection of works in French and German...
...extending of its service and its use by men and clubs. They would thus thoroughly learn its problems and methods; and those showing the greatest interest and ability could be elected members of a House Committee or other body. Within this committee the competition could be continued for certain of the higher offices...
...grateful relief in its simplicity, directness, and real point. The trenchant theatrical reviews at the end are so good as to arouse a desire that the signature W. C. B. might be substituted for cer- tain well-known initials in the critical columns of a certain Boston newspaper. Mr. Murdock's short poem, although it has its "amethyst and pearl," its "gold and blue," is inspired by true feeling and possesses true significance. Perhaps the best thing in the number is Mr. Jacobs's war-sonnet, a vital and powerful satire, and the winner of the Advocate competition...
There are certainly limits beyond which it is neither possible nor desirable to carry standardization. For some men fifty pages of economics requires an amount of time and effort equivalent to a hundred of English; for other men the ratio is quite different. In many cases the change should be towards a lessening and not an increase in the amount of work. But the fact remains that in any case there is great room for improvement. Every undergraduate is well acquainted with the existence of a large number of "snaps"; he is subject to the constant temptation to elect them...