Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year's production, "Les Romanesques," by Edmond Rostland, the Cercle will follow the principle of having the feminine roles played by women this year. The first of the three plays, "L'Echeance." is the story of an irritable Russian count who has an advantage over his rival for the hand of Mme. de Ternay, but yields finally in a typical French manner...
This year for the first time the Student Council publishes the Register, having purchased the rights for publication last June. It is better that the hand-book should be in charge of a quasi-official body, if only by way of guaranteeing a straight-forward and consistent editorial policy. There are sundry new and useful items in this year's edition, among which I notice especially the geographical list of students. The convenience of this source of information appealed to me at once; for the very first thing to which I happened to turn was the list of students from...
...needs only compare the present issue with its predecessors. The type of information which the old Register sought to furnish, its publishers were in a very poor position to secure, and it is natural that what they offered was far from complete. The Student Council, on the other hand, is in an excellent position to secure all such inside information, and it has been well set forth in the current number...
...effect of this sort of theme-setting is, of course, to discourage the spirit of true poetry and to reduce the Garrison contest to a scramble in stunts, in which he who has best the knack of realizing atmosphere at second hand may well bear the palm before more worthy rivals. But we had thought the reproach attaching to prize poems spent chiefly upon this very occasional quality of theirs! The subjects proposed are certainly of timely interest, and for that reason they may tap a genuine enthusiasm somewhere; but it would seem that the purpose of the class...
...actualities of human nature and the less it is based on the theoretical "whatought-to-be," the better must be the results. We believe that the more often the imperative call of examination is sounded, the more will be known in the end about the subject in hand. Tutors and outside coaches too often prey upon our own feeble-minded self-indulgence in matters of study, when such self-indulgence might be made impossible, at least during periods half a year long...