Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale will hold its annual fail regatta on the Housatonic river, November 17. Trial races will be held about the first of November and at that time all University, class and freshmen crews will compete for qualification in the regatta. Five crews, the three university and the two freshman will be chosen...
Among a very few classes of men the idea that politics does not offer a field for gentlemanly activity is still prevalent. However, undergraduates need not fear that a live interest in elections and political questions will be considered ungentlemanly by their friends in polite society. If they fail to understand now, they will soon find out that men on the outside world consider it "commeil faut" to discuss the policies of political parties. Many financiers, railroad magnates and money kings actually have strong political opinions and work earnestly for their respective parties. So the undergraduate need not feel that...
...inevitable appeal to feeling and prejudice, a quality of mind difficult to maintain, but none the less, on that account, to be desired. It seems that no one who has thoughtfully read the editorial columns of the issues of the CRIMSON for Friday and Saturday of last week can fail to have been struck by the fundamental discrepancy in the attitude reflected in these two successive numbers. We are first assured, under the heading "Harvard Internationalism," that "it is refreshing to reflect that some of the great universities of the world are still left to promote international good-feeling...
...number of students still fail to understand two points concerning the course. For all men except Freshmen, no previous military training at summer camps or in militia organizations is necessary. Anyone from the classes who is physically fit is entitled to take the military course. The second misunderstanding is whether the taking of this course entails future service in the regular army. After completing this course a man is under no military obligation and cannot be compelled to enter the reserve army unless he so desires...
...authors as the system of fifty years ago. However, are not these courses in composition and comparative literature giving this mass of men whose minds are filled with commercial, non-literary ideas, an appreciation of the great literary literary productions? IT such courses succeed in doing only this, and fail to develop scores of authors, they still do a great and difficult work. Although authors are valued more highly than literary critics, if a college training can mould the average American undergraduate into merely a literary critic, it is unquestionably successful...