Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hierarchy of established clubs to be considered. Leaving the feeding problem aside, it is a question whether smaller, not larger, sections might not offer a solution. If 50 percent instead of 25 percent were left out of clubs the clubs would not be such an integral part of Princeton life. The unclubbable element effectually stops a solution in the other direction...
...place has come into being. The rising tide of study, symbolized in such ninth wave as the interest in the English literature contest and the success of the Reading Period, has overwhelmed the playboy except in that brief period between September and October of the Freshman year and club life in the old people, has largely disappeared when it threatened to take the time of the one outside activity that most men are able to sustain...
...Charles. Three years ago this week saw some of the hottest and most unpleasant weather ever known to man settled on a parched university. One lived on the river banks, along with hundreds of others; nocturnal wanderings were valuable as laboratory experiments in Biology. When the siege was over life went on as usual, with the added consolation that although Cambridge is not the Maine woods nor Lake Louise it does nevertheless have its moments. With days like yesterday those moments reach their height...
...editorial is fairly representative in the losses it mentions as due to the growth of the size of colleges. All of them are qualities much to be desired in college life and which few institutions would willingly do without. They are the things the "old grads" remember with the greatest tenderness when the last memory of what they learned in courses has long since been forgotten. But what of the primary function of the college--the education it is intended to provide? Nothing has yet been evidenced to prove that this quality is affected one way or the other...
...loss of the intimate relationships within the campus group that characterized the colleges of the past and still exist among the smaller ones today will mean, if it is carried to the limit, the elimination of much that is distinctive and enjoyable in university life. But so long as the educational process is not interfered with in the individual, the real contribution of the colleges is in no danger from mere increase in size...