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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many words have been wasted about the "deplorable lack of interest" on the part of the undergraduates in their class elections. At last the class constitutions have been amended so that an election will not be valid unless 60 percent of the members of the class vote. But, although this will insure future elections being representative, it will no more do away with indifference than would an amendment saying that undergraduates "must" become interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/8/1920 | See Source »

...lack of interest by 1923, and particularly by Gore Hall, there is a great deal of doubt whether the College office will allow the Jubilee to be given this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUBILEE PLANS GIVEN | 5/7/1920 | See Source »

...regret the applause after each poem. The accumulation of your appeal was thus broken, yet it is through such lack of comprehension that we understand the awakening of our generation to, realizations unknown to those before us, much as the structure of their religion has failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/1/1920 | See Source »

...held the latter part of the month. Although this amount is the smallest given in recent years, this is due principally to the fact that scarcely over half of the Freshman class was present. The failure was caused by the negligence of 1923 men in attending, not by the lack of liberality among those present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Don Caps and Gowns | 5/1/1920 | See Source »

...Freshman tennis team will open its season this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the Jarvis Field Courts with a match against English High School. Both teams have been handicapped by lack of outdoor practice, due to the late spring and continued rains, but the yearlings especially have a good fund of material from which to select a sextet. Trials were to have been held last Wednesday, but rain and wet courts prevented, so that the men have been chosen as a result of the matched yesterday. The tentative lineup and order of play for the game today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN OPEN TENNIS SEASON | 4/30/1920 | See Source »

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