Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sake of playing on university teams, their education being made endurable only by this prospect. While we are legislating, therefore, we ought to exclude all men who come from the secondary schools solely for athletics. The difficulty is to find out who they are, as it is impossible to know the motives of a man when he registers. One thing that could be done would be to discourage the solicitation and procurement of athletes from preparatory schools by making a one year rule applicable to undergraduates. No first year men would under this rule be allowed to compete...
...know of five men in one entry of one of the Yard buildings who are Juniors this year, intending to finish their college work this year and go to the Law School next year. At least four of them wished a Yard room solely because of the opportunity it would give them Class Day. It is now too late for them to be transferred to the Senior Class even did they wish to change. Yet these men are to be driven from their rooms during their Senior year, for the benefit of some men now possibly sub-Freshmen...
...Ernest Bernbaum '03, and Onota Watanns, unsigned. All of them are carefully written, show appreciative method and skill, but except for their actual literary merit, are not particularly interesting reading. The last named is perhaps the most pleasing. It is comparatively brief, tells something that is good to know, in a manner, pleasant and graceful-and above all is not burdened with rhetorical self consciousness, but is sound without being needlessly pretentious...
...number of courses in the University the instructors refuse to give back to the students their theses written at conferences. They keep the papers and mark them as they please, without ever giving the men a chance to see their mistakes or know how they are doing...
...View of the Student of Sociology." He discussed at length the function of religion in social development, maintaining that religion as a moral and conservative force is an aid to progress Science and religion, he said, sprang originally from the same sources in human nature, the desire to know, and the desire to find the hidden causes of things. The wonder excited by the contemplation of the unexplainable realities of experience, the belief in an eternal source of energy and life, reverence for the past all tend to strengthen one's faith in an ideal which makes rational moral action...