Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Class crews will first be started and later an eight will be picked to enter the spring regatta annually held by the university crew management. Whether any outside races will be held is still a matter of doubt, but whatever events are scheduled will be short races as it is intended to make a gradual beginning of rowing at Technology...
Indifference is manifest in the association between the faculty and the student body. For the most part, there is not a close relationship--as there ought to be--between the student and his professor. Such a close companionship is infinitely desirable; there is no doubt that the indifference hinders its attainment...
This year the authorities, with a wisdom not entirely apparent to all of us, but which no doubt is sufficient, have considered the active Regiment as no longer necessary. In how much the newer method of theoretical instruction combined with some drill is successful time has been too short to show. We can consider ourselves fortunate that Captain Cordier, to whom so much of the Regiment's success is due, was in command, especially during the first weeks of the Regiment's organization...
...ever denied that enjoyment is easier than work, although no doubt less satisfying. Yet no man ever denied that success in anything, at any time, demands hard and consistent work. The choice of a month of leisure or a month of preparation has now come to every man. Even the most slothful blessed with an average college man's intelligence may yet retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well...
Strange situation that the critic should approach George Bernard Shaw with a genuine mixture of doubt and skepticism! And yet not strange, when one considers the things which have emanated from that brilliant melting-pot of inconsistencies. "Major Barbara," now playing at the Plymouth Theatre, does not change matters at all, for it is about as capable of being fully appreciated by an American audience as the Zend Avesta by a white-tied Methodist. Not that "Major Barbara" is not enjoyable, adverse criticism would reflect nowhere but on the unsatisfied but it is all so mysterious and sphinx-like...