Word: likes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...should like to suggest that Seniors wearing caps and gowns should make a point of bowing to one another. If wearing caps and gowns is good for anything at all, it ought to give the men in the class a chance to become better acquainted. This is a splendid chance to drop all unnecessary formality. J. LAWRENCE...
...typically American, illustrating in every respect the American spirit: they have an essentially practical purpose. The American wishes to see quick returns in facts and successes; he has scarcely ever any comprehension of theory and real science. He has not yet had time to understand that scholarly truth is like a beautiful woman, who should be loved and honored for her own sake, while it is a degradation to value her only for her practical services: a Yankee brain today cannot grasp that...
...Union some other College organization rather than spend it on a useless relic of no value? Probably all of those who subscribed for the bell would be willing to have the money used for some other purpose, but there are doubtless many others besides myself who would like to have an accurate knowledge of the use the money...
...carven ivory, that shone like snow...
...jokes and stories, the shorter pieces are the best, with perhaps one exception in favor of "Sherlock Holmes in Cambridge." The latter stays closely enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails...