Word: isn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present number of the Advocate being almost entirely written by undergraduates is, oddly enough, all the more literary than usual. In fact, to an outsider it seems that Mother Advocate might be saying to herself. "Well, this home cooking isn't so bad after all." Having decided for a homelike novelty, the editors evidently stipulated that quality and good humor were not to go by the board; these two points the reviewer finds as outstanding features of the number...
...that the League is something permanent; something that cannot be revoked, and for that reason they shun it; they consider it something terrible. Were the League this permanent affair that seems to be generally supposed, it truly would be well to hesitate before joining it. But it isn't. I don't aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying to answer some of the great questions that...
Further assurance that the team backed up Coach Fisher to a man was given by the words of Captain W. J. Murray. "There isn't a man on the team who will not give up all personal ambition to win that game, and who does not trust Coach Fisher to the limit...
...many would-be students acquire late, or do not acquire at all, that absorption in their work which brings the greatest satisfaction. To this cause is due the remark common among graduates: "If I were going through again, I'd work harder," and the attitude common among undergraduates: "It isn't the things you learn in college, it's the friends you make, etc." Friends are a normal accompaniment of normal living; it cannot be denied that studies should be the main interest of a college man. The specialization of college athletics and the keenness of college competitions are results...
...number is vigorous, timely, promising, Dean Gallishaw, whose stout pen doesn't really need the backing of the reproduction of his fist, in Sic Transit Gloria Lodge (would not Laubiae be more euphonious?) fights the Senator as vigorously as he fought the Hun; his ardor thrills even if he isn't quite just. Perhaps,--to alter a little the words of the poet,--he sings...