Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these days of academic self-analysis, the intellectual calibre of the American undergraduate finds few admirers or defenders. Professors speak resignedly of the poverty of his background and imagination. Even the undergraduate himself in college editorials confesses that the student soul vibrates reluctantly to the larger intellectual and social issues of the day. The absorption in petty gossip, sports, class politics, fraternity life, suggests that too many undergraduates regard their college in the light of a glorified preparatory school where the activities of their boyhood may be worked out on a grandiose scale. They do not act as if they...
...goal. After election, his enthusiasm collapses. His spiritual energy goes into class politics, fraternity and club emulation, athletics, every activity which is translatable into terms of winning and losing. In Continental universities this energy would rather go into a turbulence for causes and ideas, a militant radicalism or even or more militant conservatism that would send Paris students out into the streets with a Call-laux as-sas-sin! 'or tie up an Italian town for the sake of Italia Irredenta. Even the war, though it has called out a fund of antimilitarist sentiment in the American colleges, still tends...
Enwright was not called on for enough offensive work by which to judge him. Even Willcox, however, who was called on to substitute for Enwright at the last of the game, was unable to keep his feet in the slim. King made several substantial gains, but he could not depend on the feeble line to burst holes in the "Aggies" defense...
...Fitch will begin his Bible class for Freshmen on Monday evening at 7 o'clock. The talks are given in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House. All men from 1919 are cordially invited to attend. The class has in former years included in the neighborhood of 100 men, and this year it is hoped that even more will come...
...subjects. Among the first named, virtue is apparently unknown. The weaker sex is subject to slandering remarks whose sole aim is to fill a gap in the conversation. When the talk wanders to the war, someone says "I hope those damned ------ get licked," and the subject is closed. Even on athletics where the interest is keenest, desultory remarks and blasphemies on Yale are the main element. Interspersing everything are biting personalities on another's physical or mental qualities. A tone of affected cynicism crowns the whole...