Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cups, and men have been maudlin over one another in their cups; but between these manifestations of extreme emotion brought on by excessive indulgence have been many more numerous instances of men who have been led through the mellowing influence of rum to discover one another and, to a less but still a useful degree, themselves...
Many more candidates for positions on the squad are needed at present, according to a statement from the cross-country manager, J. F. Keane, Jr., '21. No cuts will be made in the squad during the whole season, and less than an hour a day on the track will be required in preparing the runners. Coaches will be present at the track all afternoon making it possible for men to report for the workouts in spite of late laboratory sections or afternoon recitations...
...will not suffer from unsupervised exertion. In the fall and spring this will take the great majority of those men not engaged on the regular squad. Should there be any left-overs who do not want to participate in any game there will be classes where those less experienced men may learn whatever sport they desire...
...would abridge the right of free speech. Academic freedom of speech is closely related to general freedom of speech, with this difference: There may be reasons, more or less substantial, why a man should not be permitted utmost liberty of speech in institutions sustained by public or private funds. The organic law does not contemplate the surrender of the right of free speech by men in public institutions, but its right interpretation does place on all such men a higher that ordinary responsibility to the Government and the people. The wings of thought are not to be clipped by rules...
...absolutely necessary in the form of unrestricted funds. The first important need is a 50 per cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff, which has been struggling along with truly admirable self-denial on the scale established 14 years ago. For this we must raise no less than $12,000,000, to yield an income of $600,000. It is fair to say that 90 per cent. of the teachers of the University can not live without personal sacrifice on the salaries paid them as teachers...