Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the beginning of instruction in Cornell University this year work has commenced on the first unit of an elaborate system of residential halls which when completed will provide accommodations for the entire undergraduate body. The new dormitories, which cover an area of ground amounting to about two ordinary city blocks, will be of the Old English collegiate style, constructed of rough gray stone, and built around large airy courts. The beginning of the work on the first of these buildings was made possible by an additional gift of $50,000 made last summer by the same anonymous benefactor...
...four and one-half weeks left before the opening run with Cornell, the squad is prepared to have a strenuous time reaching the required six miles, and it is expected that with the beginning of the week the distance will be increased daily until the squad is able to cover the required distance. The schedule for today will be a long walk, starting from the Locker Building at 10 o'clock. This will be in the way of a rest for the men for whom a long run at the start is rather tiring...
College Spirit, spelled with capitals and thought of as an intangible something greatly to be desired, is sometimes a curse. While we are seeking it so diligently we often lose sight of the fact that it ceases to be a virture when improprieties and injustices can be committed under cover of its magic name. But leaving generalities aside, let's look the situation squarely in the face and find a few specific instances. Take the question of the night shirt parades. We have no objection to the parade. But when a reckless gang of paraders make an exuberance of College...
...public is not so much concerned as it is with the results which will follow, if the committee's definitions are accepted by the federation and become binding. Vagueness of standard has made for laxity of conduct often. The surer athletes are that certain formally declared rules of classification cover cases of conduct that. Whenever noted, at once, automatically as it were, put the men out of the amatuer and into the professional class, and the surer they are that these rules will be enforced once they are officially announced, the move likelihood there is of conformity to the code...
...form of the Monthly is a pleasant surprise. The cover is much improved both in color and design. The narrower page and the heavier titles are more pleasing to the eye. I trust the editors will make this their permanent form.FREDERIC D. WERSTER