Word: forms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This prize was founded in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Conbertin, in the form of a medal "to be awarded to the successful contestant in an annual debate; off a subject drawn from contemporary French politics...
...verse is less distinguished; some of it, in fact, is bad. The most finished poem of the seven is Mr. Mitchell's sonnet; the most effective. Mr. Dos Passos' "Incarnation," an experiment in a form which allows itself something of the flexibility of "vers libre" yet retains rhyme and metre. Mr. Allinson's "Renaissance," a sonnet replete with mythological allusions of surprisingly cosmopolitan range, must have been written of some other April than the month we have just survived...
Since golf and tennis on Sundays are an habitual form of exercise and recreation at all country clubs of importance near Boston, it seems inconsistent that the University courts should be closed on this day. It is highly improbable that an appreciable number of students object to Sunday tennis on the grounds of moral principle. But the creation of a disturbance to the people who live near the courts might be a serious criticism. Though Jarvis Field is so situated that tennis on its courts might demoralize the Sunday atmosphere in the residential section adjoining, Soldiers Field may be considered...
Princeton has applied the same principle in a modified form. The personnel of the staff is the same: a manager, an assistant-manager, and four second-assistant managers. In the spring the freshman class nominates four competitors for football second assistant-manager candidates; and the sophomores nominate at mid-years four candidates for the track department, and four for baseball. By a committee, consisting of the captain, the manager, and the assistant-manager, in conjunction with the General Treasurer of the Athletic Association and the chairman of the Board of Athletic Control, the winner of the competition is determined...
...held a practice race yesterday afternoon from the Union Boat Club to the Cottage Farm Bridge. University A had no trouble in finishing a length of open water ahead of University B, and University B finished two lengths ahead of University C. All three crews were rowing in excellent form, but the first crew showed itself much superior to the other two. The Board of Overseers of the University attended the race on the coaching launches...