Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...vista of mathematical training for the would-be engineer often bring a painful disillusionment. On the other hand, a young man of intelligence, personal force and executive ability, with a good supply of honest ambition, often excludes from consideration such profes- sions as the ministry or education, on the ground that his qualities would be thrown away in these professions, or because he thinks the minister or the teacher is presumably a man whose career is never voluntarily chosen but is marked out for him by the possession of certain so-called gifts, which no able-bodied, vigorous and ambitious...
Perhaps, after all, our chief ground for complaint is that these things which so intimately concern our daily life do not come up to the standards that we have about us. If we contrast our Yard dormitories and our Gymnasium with our athletic field, our boathouses, the Law and Medical School buildings, and the Union, we recognize at once their inadequacy...
...present attitude gains ground, the Monthly will soon begin issuing comic supplements and the chess team will be giving gymnastic exhibitions in the Yard. Although the Speakers' Club has a perfect right to give theatricals, we still maintain that it should stick to its own department and leave representative undergraduate dramatics to the proper organization...
...influences are distinctly those devices from some course in English. A good imagination and some artistry in words spent too lavishly on the impossible--these things make me wish that Mr. Moore would come off his mediaeval perch; his literary legs will stand firmer on the common ground. At last an essay after the old familiar College type, this time "Concerning College Amours." Mr. Martin has some delicate phrasing, captivating turns of speech, and still looks at life from an upper window. But he is sure to write better because he already writes so well...
...good standing, but he played a strong defensive game on the second eleven, and his line-plunging has been one of the features of the practice scrimmages this fall. Corbett and Leslie will probably be the halfbacks. Both are speedy, run well through a broken field, and are consistent ground-gainers. There is also some promising material from the 1912 team in Pierce, Frothingham and Winston. The hardest task that confronts the coaches will be the development of a quarterback. The same problem, however, came up this fall, and Coaches Haughton and Daly developed from green material a quarterback whose...