Word: deal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University four has been shifted about a good deal up to the last week and did not show much speed. The last few days have shown a great improvement however. The Freshman four is one of the best in several years...
...that is what we mean by accomplishing something. Are you thinking of reputation? If your idea is reputation, you will get your reward. Reputation is a fairly easy thing to get. A little judicious advertising and a little putting forth of one's self will bring a great deal of reputation. Reward is not necessarily of real value to a man who has a deep, earnest conviction of what he wants to do in life. It is the act which is the life itself, and not the fame of it which is precious. If that is what your object...
...course spent several weeks' reading on a review of Biology, which might give an opportunity for the addition of some Physiology. Of course, such a change would depart somewhat from the concrete subject of the course, but, on the other hand, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine deal intimately with Eugenics. We make this suggestion, not to ask for a change in Zoology 2, but to find, if possible, some way of giving more students a chance to learn something of the fundamentals of an all-important subject...
Both of the winning essays in this year's competition for the Harvard Advocate prizes deal with the question of the humble position of the mere student as compared with the glories that surround the university athlete, and, to a less degree the society man. More significant of the place which this topic is holding just now in the university world is the fact that it was the theme of two thirds of all the essays submitted. The submerged tenth, it would thus appear, is not altogether without hope of emerging from the obscurity that...
...faculties could change this condition if they wished. Entrance requirements and requirements after entrance could be made impossible for any but genuine scholars. But it is unlikely that trustees and faculties are going to do this. For better or for worse, the American institution of learning is a good deal more--or a good deal less--than a place to learn, in the scholastic sense. The most determined university president will perforce be satisfied to get a fair proportion of his populace, quality as well as quantity considered, into the main tent