Word: highly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...election of officers by a Freshman class is second only in importance to the election of permanent officers in Senior year. A class which is carefully organized and ably directed in its first year is on the high road to success and in the succeeding years will profit in full measure by a good beginning. Some years ago when the Freshman president was chosen earlier in the year it was harder to make certain of the right man unless the class was fortunate in having a man on the University football team, who had the qualities necessary for the position...
...article is unfortunate, its style violent, its though confused. The following paragraph is typical in its hopeless lack of logic: "Parenthetically as to 'loyalty', it is one of the moral values that I least admire. It usually implies a subjection of your own sentiments and convictions. A high enterprise needs no appeal to loyalty, and an unworthy one is often supported by it. The agitator that dies for the hopeless cause, or the soldier that falls by the shot-torn flag, never thinks of loyalty. It is his mission in life, and he does not question it. If football...
...especially difficult, for lately there has been in progress at Memorial a policy of experiment--a policy naturally arising from continued evidences of dissatisfaction. Nor have the experiments as yet greatly relieved the dissatisfaction, for it is evident that the Association will soon suffer from desertion unless the extraordinarily high price charged so far this year is substantially reduced...
...events will be as follows: five-mile run, scratch; 40-yard dash, scratch; putting 12-pound shot, scratch; 40-yard dash, 9-foot limit; 600-yard dash, 30-yard limit; 45-yard high hurdle race, 3 flights, 3 ft. 6 in high, 9-foot limit; 1000-yard run 50-yard limit; one-mile run, 60-yard limit; putting 16-pound shot, 6-foot limit; high-jump, 6 inch limit. Competitors must show that they have put the 16-pound shot 38 ft., and high-jumped 5 ft. 3 in. in competition, in order to qualify for these events...
Twenty-two men from the class of 1909 and seven men from the class of 1910 have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society. Scholarship and character are the basis for election to the society. Scholarship is not considered as merely the attainment of high grades "in unrelated and often elementary courses," but as the combination of academic distinction and ability. The additional members from the class of 1909 are to be elected at a later date...