Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class of '01." The father laughs at the boy and teases him, but he says the youngster has taken the matter so seriously to heart that he is not sure whether even the nine years preparation that still remain will drive the notion out of his head. The dilemma is an amusing one, and affords opportunity for curious speculation as to what title the class of 1900 will take unto itself. There seems, however, no very pressing haste for the settlement of the question. - Boston Courier...
...first horn of the dilemma we wish to avoid as long as possible, the second is scarcely less disagreeable. But the statement remains true that out of the whole class only eight men ever tried to do anything for the college press, and of that number but five have as yet satisfactorily demonstrated their fitness for more than mediacre work. Why such a state of things should be is almost inexplicable. The small amount of work required of an editor upon any one of our college papers certainly brings more than its due reward in the pleasure and experience gained...
...real adversary of the public school system, an adversary whose opposition is avowed, positive and usually logical is the Catholic denomination - in its clergy, for left to themselves the laity would be inert in the matter. The Catholic church has put the schools in this dilemma: schools that retain the shadow of religious instruction are denounced as sectarian, while those that leave it out are branded as godless. And to neither kind, the church declares, can it send its children; accordingly, at the late council in Baltimore, it ordered the erection of parochial schools throughout the country...
...students is decreasing show conclusively that something is not as it should be. All efforts to locate this something in any characteristic of Yale's government other than her tendency to old fogyism, merely beg the question. Harvard's prosperity since adopting the new ideas, and Yale's present dilemma, taken together show where the trouble...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON: - Your paper realizes the fact that base ball has a delimma, but fails to perceive that this dilemma, like most others, has two horns. You take one horn when you say the college must have more grounds. For eighteen men to play base ball a field of three or four acres is necessary. To make the game a general recreation for students at large would require all the unoceeupied land for miles around. President Eliot took the other horn of the dilemmanamely, that base ball should be supplanted by some game which requires less territory. Such...