Word: enigma
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...team today is, as it has been throughout the season, a sort of enigma. From one day to the next its form has been one long series of contradictions, until even at the very last day it is impossible to state how strong the team really is. At times the men have shown ability to play together, though never for any prolonged period. It is possible, however, that the secret practice, which has continued without interruption during the past four weeks, may have wrought great changes in the team. The improvement during the last week, at least, has been extensive...
Perhaps one of the most important questions confronting the University today, is, what is the best way to treat a Freshman class? The question has grown as steadily as have the entering classes, and has every year become more of an enigma...
...News editorial says: "It is not so much the forensic ability of the individual contestants which figures in these intercollegiate competitions as it is the debating training of the university which they represent." A strange enigma; for it is in "the forensic ability of the individual contestants" that the debating training which a university gives to its members is put to the test. This very fact is a potent reason for insisting that the forensic ability of the individual debaters shall count for all it is worth and not be deprived of its individuality by coaching...
...most puzzling questions that have recently disturbed the minds of economists and socialogists, is the so called Russian Revolt. Mr. Noble in his little volume by this name has endeavored to solve the enigma. As a study in history, the book is exceptionally concise, and thoroughly satisfactory with the exception of the study given to the period more immediately previous to the dynamite period of agitation. The author has not sufficiently noticed this period of the revolt, and as a result, the book somewhat unnaturally falls into two parts,-preparation for the revolt, and the revolt itself. The treatment...
...next called to a strange device over the fire-place-a row of four cards, the ace of hearts, eight of clubs, 8 to spades and five of diamonds, a suspicious looking bottle above, and skull-and-crossbones on each side. Snodkins informs us that it is a pictorial enigma; but, not being good at pictorial enigmas, we pass on, and come to the "shingles," so called, from which we learn that our host belongs to H. A. A., H. S. C., H. P. C., H. C. C., and H. t. A. L. Other things near by give evidence that...