Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the theory of the Rhodes Scholarships there need be no quarrel. But what is a scholarship of international good-will, here and there, in a sea of international distrust? There is no individualistic back-stair into the haven of world peace. --Boston Globe...
...standard of education and culture in a country is apt to be judged by the character of literature produced by the country's authors during a certain period. Mr. Ellsworth bewails the decreasing number of good authors which this country has produced in the last two decades, and declares that the educational machinery of our colleges is at fault. It must be remembered that the population of the country has advanced with gigantic strides, and each decade has found American colleges struggling to expand their scolastic facilities in order to care for the mass of young men eager to learn...
Perhaps it will have to be admitted that the present system of teaching men to write and appreciate good English has not produced as great a number of noted 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...
...work of the competition consists of accompanying the clubs on certain of the shorter trips around Boston, securing concerts, arranging trips and some clerical work. The competition offers an excellent opportunity for a good business training, the duties of the manager corresponding closely to those of the business world...
...Service Bureau has opened temporary headquarters at Thayer 67, north entry. The officer hours are on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons from 4 to 5 o'clock. Chairman of the Bureau W. M. Horton '17 is anxious to see all men having persistent difficulty with their studies and all good students willing to act as informal advisers...