Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through them the college man seeks to express himself. As a self-respecting individual he shuns the thought of a watchful guiding hand, under which his own theories might lose their identity. He is trying to work out college problems and solve them to the best of his ability. Naturally he resents interference, as he wants his paper to represent his own thoughts, unslashed by the blue pencil of a professional censor...
...Dartmouth will lead in actual percentage of games won and lost, since the Green has played only one game with each of the other teams, winning from Princeton and Yale, but losing to the University; but in series rating Harvard and Dartmouth will stand the same. On the other hand, if the game tonight goes to the Crimson seven the championship will go with...
With some 40,000 living Harvard men to reach, in addition to innumerable "outside" friends of the University, it would be impossible, and for many reasons, impracticable, to conduct a short quick campaign. If a substantial part of the desired sum is in hand by next Commencement, the committee will feel that a satisfactory start on the great task has been made. ROBERT F. DUNCAN '12, Secretary, Endowment Fund Committee...
...Court can then turn to Dr. Butler's handy reference book to discover how far they are permitted to go in reconciling their theories of law with the acts of various legislatures. Congress need never again err by exceeding its powers so long as a single member keeps on hand a copy of the decisions of the high court of Columbia...
...speakers from the outside is based upon a misconception of the attitude of the students toward those who address them from the lecture platform. That attitude is almost invariably one of respect, mingled with doubt. No audience is quicker to perceive the untruth, the fallacy, or, on the other hand, the worth of an argument. Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed to listen daily to men famous over the civilized world. The trustees of Columbia, as of other colleges, fail to realize the spirit of criticism in which the undergraduate mind...