Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Low of Columbia has appointed an Athletic Council, composed of Professors J. H. Van Amringe and James F. Kemp and Dr. Watson S. Savage, the physical director, to supervise and regulate the conditions on which students may represent the university in athletics. Hitherto there has never been any kind of faculty supervision of athletics, largely because no need for it has been apparent. But of late there has been a growing tendency for athletes to enter the university as special students, taking a minimum of courses and devoting their main energies to athletics. Such men have of course always...
...with the life of the University. As things stand now, when a man graduates he feels that his connection with the University is severed. He may possibly return to his former clique, but even here he feels that he is merely admitted through courtesy. With a club of this kind the graduates would be bound more closely to the University, and would feel that they were a part of its activity...
...been followed in the competitions for the last few intercollegiate debates. Under the present system there is absolutely no way of judging what skill any competitor has in rebuttal, since each man makes but one five minute speech in which there is usually no pretence at replication of any kind. The only attempt that has ever been made in any competion to test the candidates on rebuttal was three years ago, when a scheme was hastily formulated on the evening of the first trial by which five men were chosen. These men spoke afterwards in rebuttal against five other...
Suggestions of any kind will be gladly received by the committee who have the matter in charge, and they will be especially pleased to have names sent to them of men who are well fitted to serve on the executive committee...
...paper on Rudyard Kipling, is able and clear-sighted; the other, called "Of the Grain That's Spilled," is a slight but strong story told in a simple and energetic style. It would be a source of gratification if the Advocate would publish more stories of this kind instead of the polite society twaddle which appears so often in its pages...