Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lines of work in future years? We like to be treated like men, and so we seldom stop to consider the flagrant abuses of this privilege that are perpetrated each year. In every class there are many men who are capable of electing their courses with forethought and an eye to a well-rounded education; but there are as many more who elect an irrelevant mass of studies, either because they do not honestly know what they want, or because they are easily influenced by rumors of "snaps," and, with their friends, follow the lines of least resistance...
...American--may, with mutual benefit, be put in touch with each other. At Cornell the Cosmopolitan Club has proved its usefulness and attained the popularity it deserves. We hope and fully expect that here, where the possibilities are so great, the society, although perhaps not much in the public eye, will grow steadily in usefulness, scope and power...
...middle of the first half Pell received an accidental cut over the eye from a stick, but continued through the game with a bandage. He played an excellent game, going down the boards time and again only to find the rest of the forwards too slow. Hicks, however, supported him well and did some pretty dribbling. The defense of Ford and Willets was fair although Willets was not up to his usual game...
...Bureau of Municipal Research aims so to mass the facts of government as to produce artificially the light and the neighbor's eye which will inhibit the desire to misgovern. For the execution of this program, college men are needed. When they do not sincerely love to be intelligent, they at least like to seem to be intelligent. I can conceive of no greater service that can be rendered by the Intercollegiate Civic League than to spread among its membership the idea that no intelligence is negotiable in matters politic but intelligence as to government ends and community needs. When...
...immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that the Lampoon is at a disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown-up man- nish, and of the world worldly. There are few persons who of their won selves write...