Word: circus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Just as Woodrow Wilson remarked some years ago while addressing an audience of educators, in college the side shows have crowded out the main circus, and the varied undergraduate activities, to be sure both "active and interesting," are attracting the main body of students. The number of men who come to college with the intention of pursuing scholarship as their chief interest from the start of their academic career is lamentably small, for young men realize that at present the activities of the scholar are not attended with band playing or cheering. Almost unnoticed and unknown the man who devotes...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "The Nature of the Lyric, Ancient and Modern." Dr. H. DeW. Fuller. "The Seating Capacity of the Circus Maximus." Professor Howard. "The Festival of Mamurius." Professor C. H. Moore. Sever...