Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen should be sufficient to make us more guarded against assuming any over-confidence. Success is by no means guaranteed by education. What has been said before still applies today, that education is nothing more nor less than an effective tool, the successful application of which depends on hard and intelligent work. Our training must be regarded as a privilege not to be abused by any false notion of inherent superiority merely because of the fact that we number a diploma among our possessions...
...Latin of the passage in Prescott's "Ferdinand and Isabella." Vol. II, Part II, Chapter I, beginning with "No sooner was the internal organization" and ending with "a by-word of political knavery." A prize of $100 is offered for an original essay in Greek or Latin of not less than 3000 words written by a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence for one full year within the period...
Joseph Brennan, as John Ferguson, it a notable actor. He has the rate gift of acting by being natural, and is there by doubly convincing. No less excellent was the performance of Miss Freedmar as Hannah. These two were easily the outstanding figures, but no one in the cast was inferior. Dudley Digges slightly overdid the part of Jimmy Caesar, but not enough to spoil it, and Brandor Peters was sturdy if not brilliant as Andrew...
...soon as the squad has been fairly accurately scanned the less promising men will be divided into dormitory teams. These will compete in a series of games soon after the Christmas vacation, lasting until the end of March. Meanwhile the best players of the squad will be formed into a regular Freshman team, but at all times men may either be moved up from the dormitory team or down from the class team. The dormitory teams will contest among themselves for the dormitory basketball title, to count in the All-Around Interdormitory series, and may also play teams made...
...this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each day to express its opinion. The Public has more shapes than Geryon in a palace of trick mirrors, and less intelligence than Triceratops, who could have swallowed his brain at a gulp. It allows the "laws of economics" to provide its food and clothing; and when a great Strike supervenes, it puts its Great Seal of approval on Published Opinion, in some such form as this: Such things should...