Word: findings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class of 1910 has been placed by the spirit in which the result of the first election has been accepted is serious enough to constitute, if not an actual split, at least the imminent possibility of one. Both parties to the strife have used methods which ought never to find a place in College elections. Partisan zeal and prejudice have been turned to account in ways which are particularly objectionable in Senior year, when nominees should be considered on their merits alone...
...blue-books at Leavitt & Peirce's before December 23. (2) Duplicate lists must be sent to the manager of the University team at the Athletic Office after every game. (3) Every team must have a captain or manager who will have complete charge of the team. This man must find out from all members of his team if it will be possible for them to play any day, and anywhere at 3.30 o'clock...
...range of subject-matter is passing great; from China to the shores of Lake Michigan; from Canada to the other world of Orpheus. This is as it should be; the undergraduate mind has ever felt free to embrace the world entire, both fact and fancy. One expects to find, however, in that embrace more real grip than is evident in the present instance. With but few exceptions, the pieces have the fussiness of old age, without the latter's choice reflectiveness; they lack the urgent passion of youth...
...verse, there are two poems of merit. E.E. Hunt, in his modern rendering of "Sir Orfeo," shows genuine literary conscience in sticking to the spirit of the original and in avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find for J. G. Gilkey, who would have done better, nevertheless, to tell of it in two stanzas rather than in three. The rest of the verse and all of the fiction, save for passages here and there, have already been noticed at the beginning of this review...
...have known, are not versed primarily in the science of education. Some of the very best scholars with whom you have come in contact here at Harvard, may have impressed you as men not peculiarly gifted as teachers. The art of teaching is a thing by itself. I, myself, find difficulty in understanding from what it springs. Surely, through it must be moving that sign of perception that leads the teacher to understand that which is working in the mind of the pupil. It involves the appreciation of human nature that keeps one of older years in sympathy with...