Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Carpenter's story, "The Nymph Chaser," is in a conventional style above that of the average undergraduate. Although perhaps a little long drawn out and in places a little lagging in interest, it is technically correct and very pleasant to read...
...increase of 200 votes over the total number polled in the Presidential ballot of 1912 points encouragingly to the fact that College men are taking a greater and more active interest in National politics. Whether the Old Guard holds away over Harvard undergraduates or not, provided the College is politically alive, "good times" prevail...
...chief element of interest in the game this afternoon will be the fact that this is the first time that the University eleven has met a team coached by men who use the Haughton system, for the North Carolina squad this year has been under the direction of T. J. Camp- bell '12 and R. R. Cowen '16, both of whom were trained by Coach Haughton. Thus the game this afternoon should prove an interesting contest between two teams similarly trained and drilled, both using the same style of football. Hard, straight-forward playing, without the use of trick plays...
Among a very few classes of men the idea that politics does not offer a field for gentlemanly activity is still prevalent. However, undergraduates need not fear that a live interest in elections and political questions will be considered ungentlemanly by their friends in polite society. If they fail to understand now, they will soon find out that men on the outside world consider it "commeil faut" to discuss the policies of political parties. Many financiers, railroad magnates and money kings actually have strong political opinions and work earnestly for their respective parties. So the undergraduate need not feel that...
...Abraham Flexner, the distinguished educational expert, has attracted much attention by his attacks on our present educational system, and by his plans for instruction based largely on the training of sense rather than memory, as President Eliot expresses it. It is an interesting idea, already partly introduced in the public schools of Maryland. Dr. Flexner would divide the curriculum into four fields: science, industry, civics and aesthetics, proposing subjects and methods of immediate interest and practical value. Such a basis is surely sound. Every school boy has rebelled at "conjugating dead languages and reciting the imports of Uruguay...