Word: group
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what was the result of Major-General O'Ryan's order? A large group of officers of the Twelfth tendered their resignations, because they felt that they had been insulted. This act was startling and spectacular in the extreme; for its immediate cause was insignificant. It revealed the presence of strong feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases...
...number of men who are receiving scholarships or remissions of tuition is 156. A student must not stand below the third group in scholarship and must prove that the assistance is absolutely needed to receive a remission of from $100 to $125 a year. He is also restricted in the amount of his college expenses. Those who stood in the previous year in the first group will be given scholarships of $175, providing the other conditions are complied with, and those whose standing was in the second general group are eligible for $150 scholarships...
...award was made as the result of the winning of highest honors in the entrance examinations by Leland William Smith '20 and Benjamin Kelson '20, both of Springfield, making an average of two out of a possible seven graduates of the school in the First Group. The honor list is smaller than usual this year because it is made up on a stricter basis, requiring an average of B in all the entrance examinations. The winning of the trophy for the second time therefore not only shows marked ability in the student but is a fine record for the school...
...group of several men, just one of them can turn the tide from ordinary piffle, and keep the tone of the conversation high. By developing a discussion into something valuable, the best in student life is often expressed. From the ordinary student rocker in the top story of a rooming house may be expressed in college slang, truths which are as great as any which were exhaled from the Greek oracles. Students thus decide to their own satisfaction some of the fundamental questions which otherwise they might never have figured out. A wealth and variety of experiences, and a healthy...
...problem is nearly as old as man, and it will last as long as man endures. It needs always to be regarded. To develop the group discussion means the cultivation of truer friendship and more real education. --Michigan Daily...