Word: enough
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...losing his position, but also to forget those fine bits of knowledge on which he relied for advancement. In the second place, foreign armies include many men taken from the middle of their college career. Boys who have not even completed a preparatory school course are often old enough to fight. Although some may take up their work where they left it, yet others must consider their education finished. Such soldiers will profit most from the university. Whether they return to studies or not, their future welfare often depends on their continuing, or at least, not forgetting their mental training...
...putting College exercises ahead one hour proves that the majority of students was not convinced of the merits of such a plan. We are not to think the scheme was opposed on selfish grounds alone. The horror of inconvenience may have influenced a great many, but they were sagacious enough to hide the fact. The measure went down to defeat because to too many it seemed impractical and futile...
...Perhaps there is another exception, but I am not going to name it for fear of revealing my own obtuseness. One of the pieces of prose fiction seems to me a parody--and in places a good one--but if it is intended as such, it is not obviously enough so. One doubts it the more because several other pages of this Advocate, written in undoubted seriousness unfortunately suggest parody...
What harm is there in getting out of bed an hour earlier? It is light enough to read at 6.30 A. M. these days. Don't let a patriotic wish to save electricity keep you in bed. Can the College fear a new experience? Are we to prate falsly of too many war-privations? It is extremely easy in these days of early closing theatres and amusements to go to bed an hour earlier. Indeed, only from the outside point of view would it be an hour earlier. To us under the new schedule we would be going...
Suppose each student usually used three electric bulbs. This should be liberal enough to include the lighting of Widener...