Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prophetic leaders. Scientific men, chiefly interested in knowing things, caring mostly for truth for the truth's sake, while they are not infrequently found in the profession, are not the most at home there. The type of man who will find his place in the ministry is of the expressive or artistic sort; the man who is not so much interested in practical or intellectual as literary and creative matters. Men who have a natural predisposition for the interpretation of life, who like to express themselves and to try to express the life of their generation, who want to know...
...begin at 9.15 o'clock, except any that may be announced for 2 o'clock, and must not extend beyond three hours. The following regulations are brought to the notice of all men: "No student is permitted to take any books or paper into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever." 'A student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the time appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer...
Slipshod English prevails throughout the number in prose and in verse. Among the contributors the thought of composition as an art seems rare. Such expressions as, "The two lawyers . . . . are unusually realistic, perhaps due to the fact that," etc., such sentences as, "It has novelty, punch, heart interest, and almost all the other ingredients which go to make up a smashing success," should not be printed in a document that is sold for more than one cent. The only story in the number, My Friend of the Smoking Room, should be powerful or nothing. It is not powerful...
...undersigned, as representatives of our respective classes, wish to express in your columns our hearty commendation of the plan for taking up a collection for the war-sufferers between the halves of Saturday's game with Yale...
...formula under which Seniors suffer? Or are the dispensers of warmth following a policy of economy? If so it may be suggested that Seniors will pay rather than freeze. Will those in charge recognize their duty, or is this a matter in which the Student Council must act to express the universal hostility among Seniors to the freeze-out policy...