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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Congress meets next Monday. Then if, as seems probable; war is declared the University as a whole will be able to throw itself unreservedly into the service of the Government. Confidence and determination will take the place of doubt and irresolution. If we must have a period of uncertainty let it be now rather than after war has actually been declared to exist...
...destroy such an institution, even in these days of extreme international stress, is inadvisable unless the benefits to be gained are clear and unmistakable. In the present case we can see none. Let the reformers of 1920 organize a class fund for Serbian or Belgian relief, for they could do nothing finer, but the sacrifice of such a major class institution as the Red Book seems unnecessary...
...first place, there is no democracy between professor and student. Let Mr. Lloyd, or any other undergraduate ask for the time of any professor outside his office hours (which no one ever knows) and he will soon see why our Faculty are called the "Vanishing Wonders." As for personal contact with professors, either social or scholastic, it simply does not exist, except in a very few noteworthy cases. The University teas (stiff, unnatural functions that they are) are never largely attended. As for professors, only two or three, in the writer's knowledge, hold regular recep- tions where a student...
...over Team B was the big event of yesterday's practice for the University baseball squad. Coach Duffy, who has been emphasizing rudiments in the early practice, first put the men through a stiff preliminary workout, watching the pitchers in their warming up and allowing the men to let out a little, as their arms are rapidly limbering up. The squad was then given the usual batting and fielding practice, and afterwards lined up for base-running...
...Puritan forefathers fought one sort of bigotry with another. Let us not imitate them." --New York...