Word: laying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hornblower received a slight injury in the Cornell game, he did not take part in the scrimmage with the Hockey Club, his place at right centre being taken by Childs. Duncan also was given a lay-off and Pierce was put in at left centre. Palmer, who has just joined the squad, replaced Pierce for the last few minutes of the game...
...University itself, it is idle to expect the students or the public to value them highly, or to hope that undergraduates will have any great ambition to excel in their College work. If we are to succeed in making scholarship in College an object of ambition, we must lay stress not exclusively upon the degree, but also upon the grade with which that degree is taken, and upon literary and other prizes that are won. In short, we must fix the attention of the student not upon minimum requirements, but upon the highest grade of excellence that lies within...
...organization of the Department of English. He was chairman of the Department for many years, and the development of courses of study in the later periods of literature was largely his work. His views were broad and generous. He valued scholarship wherever be found it, even when it lay outside of his own particular interests. He was, in fact, the least dogmatic of men, despite the impression to the contrary which his vigorous way of speaking frequently made upon those who did not know him well. He was a firm believe in free discussion, and he listened readily...
...addition to these changes which were advocated by the CRIMSON, the objection was raised that the proposed constitution was framed by an unconstitutional body. The strength of this objection lay in the fact that there was to be no adequate ratification. Since this is remedied in the new draft, however, the question of the legality of the framing loses its significance...
Perhaps the chief fault of the Council of last year lay in the fact that it was unwieldy almost to the point of immobility. Practically the twenty busiest men in College cannot all be expected to be free at any one time. Consequently meetings were poorly attended; the members lost interest, and efficiency departed. This experience proves that the Student Council was too large to form an effective working body...