Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crying want of men for the field events. For these five events (pole-vault, broad jump, high jump, hammerthrow, and shot-put) there are only 25 men. For the eight track events there are 121 men. Right now is the time for the University to get together and help. In order to beat Yale and to do well in the Intercollegiates it is absolutely necessary that these events should be strengthened. There is a splendid opportunity for men to make good here and to help the track team in a way that it greatly needs. F. W. CAPPER...
...than the reader suspects, till the amusing "denouement," on the famous street, makes one wish that the suspense had lasted longer. More ambitious is Mr. Murdock's "A Change of Heart," which tells how a smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort of philanthropy, but to golf! Possibly the characters in the story would be more life-like if the author had let them speak more for themselves; the setting and atmosphere are well handled. The unexpected...
...does the society good, and accounts for the growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle in the eyes of the University world...
...Book Committee requests that all Freshmen fill out the postal cards containing their class histories, and mail them at once. A prompt return will greatly help the committee, and there is no need for delay, as the committee will itself make any additions to the lives which may be made necessary as result of spring activities...
...hoped that all the students concerned will comply with the request to answer frankly and seriously. The Department of Economics, recognizing that to help men to self-help is as high an end as the scholarly presentation of a subject, and that men taking a course for distribution are entitled to as good service as are specialists, is starting in the right direction...