Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly meetings of the Association have been in charge of P. E. Wilson. An innovation was tried of having all meetings led by outside speakers and none by undergraduates. They have consequently been most successful from the standpoint of content, but the attendance has been rather small...
...winter track season this year could hardly be classed as a complete success inasmuch as the University was forced to trail behind Cornell in the triangular meet on February 25, and to content itself with seventh place in the intercollegiate meet at New York. The relay teams, too, had a mediocre season, but the work of one or two individuals such s Brown and Burke gave the Crimson some consolation for the failure to win all the intercollegiate contests...
...mature and wise civilization which has escaped the ruinous fate of Babylon, Greece, and Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self-sufficiency and a desire to be left alone. "What can we accomplish" (referring to the burst of international "generosity" toward China concentrated in the Washington conference) "against a social organization so justly equipoised, which has for its foundation this family idea, this spirit of cooperation, this temperamental solidarity...
...have been asked not to write more than five hundred words on the subject. I could be content with one: Brainless...
...cannot be said that the undergraduate is entirely responsible for his attitude. So long an parents are content with the things their children are receiving at college, so long will the latter fail to desire anything else. Until intellectual achievement receives more than its present modicum of applause at the hands of the community at large, undergraduate interest will never transfer itself to this field. In this vicious circle, a break must be made somewhere...