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...Gavit writes a pleasing sketch, Mr. Garrison likewise; and lastly Mr. MacVeagh's trifle. A drama article and copious reviews of good books (here the graduates creep in) conclude the number. One closes the issue with the feeling that the Advocate Board, having produced a number of genuine humor and quality, deserves a ride that luxurious-looking, self-propelling carriage advertised on the reverse cover...

Author: By Maurice Firuski., | Title: UNDERGRADUATES ADJUDGED MORE LITERARY THAN USUAL | 12/18/1919 | See Source »

This evening, at eight bells of the second dog watch, when the sleep of oblivion is beginning to creep over the rural districts and, by tradition, the Freshman Dormitories, and when the subway-to-Park is just beginning to awake, the sparse but never sad remnants of 1917 will gather from Hollis, from Holworthy, and the furthest confines of West Newton for that annual festival wherein Seniors have attempted since immemorial years to forget, if such a thing were possible, that they are wise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REJUVENESCENCE OF THE MAGI | 6/18/1917 | See Source »

...Novice singles, which the latter won by the small margin of one foot. N. P. Darling '17 won the Carroll Cup, easily defeating all his opponents. In the wherry race E. Holt '18 was in the lead, but got cramps about 100 yards before the finish, just managing to creep over second, four lengths behind N. L. Harris '19, the winner. The summary of the day follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGATTA PROVED SUCCESSFUL | 5/19/1916 | See Source »

...League, that one day a week should be devoted to absolute rest and quiet, the CRIMSON ball team has set aside today for the purpose, and has accordingly scheduled a contest with the Phi Beta Kappa nine for this afternoon. Weary with intellectual toil, the scholars will creep to Soldiers Field in time to meet the journalistic juggernaut at about 3.30 o'clock. Partisans of the superlative students say that they will show a lot of inside baseball; but this does not discourage the CRIMSON. Past experience shows that Phi Beta Kappa baseball is usually so far inside that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TO CONTINUE CONQUESTS | 5/11/1916 | See Source »

...will not do to sit back in smug complacency and say "my talk is all right," or "it's nobody's business." Collegiate life in general can bear improving. In a university, if anywhere, ideas should creep into the conversation. And the value of talking, when mind meets mind in frank communion and keen interplay, can be compared favorably to text-book study. The undergraduate could learn more of the satisfaction one feels when he can truly say, as Dr. Johnson said (and Stevenson quoted), "Sir, we had a good talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SIR, WE HAD A GOOD TALK." | 12/14/1915 | See Source »

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