Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...come over, and the right men seem to stay at home...
...Freshman candidates. A regular schedule of times has been arranged for the men to report: hurdlers, 2.45 o'clock; University short distance relay men, 3.15 o'clock; long distance men, 3.40 o'clock; 1920 relay men and all others, 4 o'clock. Practice for all field event men will come at 2.45 o'clock. On Saturdays, Coach Donovan will be at the field from 11.50 to 1 o'clock...
Reports of a somewhat vague and inconclusive nature come from Harvard University to the effect that there is less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean...
...response of American colleges to the proposal that they make it easy for Mexican youths to come here to study has been prompt and generous, more than a hundred institutions having made definite offers of assistance in the form of remission of tuition fees or of scholarships covering the expense of both board and tuition. The other part of the project, for a visit of fifty Mexican educators to this country, has met with less success so far, although it may be regarded as the more important half of the plan. The objection has been made that such a visit...
...ever denied that enjoyment is easier than work, although no doubt less satisfying. Yet no man ever denied that success in anything, at any time, demands hard and consistent work. The choice of a month of leisure or a month of preparation has now come to every man. Even the most slothful blessed with an average college man's intelligence may yet retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well...