Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Like an echo from, another world" sounds the announcement that 30 American college men are sailing for England to study in Oxford University. They are this year's holders of Rhodes Scholarships...
...Fitch '00 urged the men, for the sake of their parents and the men whom they represent--the men who have not a chance like theirs--to make the most of the opportunities offered in college. Dr. Fitch said, "You represent the parents who have toiled that you may be here; the men and boys who, unable to come to the college, are working now; and you represent those boys who have laid down their lives in heroism on the other hemisphere...
...restricted area of England, where his movements can be strictly observed, is by no means the spy or marplot which these prohibitions might be taken to indicate, He is merely so much the philosopher that he cannot take a national view of the questions involved in the war. Like Woodrow Wilson, he regards the whole world as mad, with one nation as much to blame as another for the general outbreak of insanity. This being, apparently, his view, Mr. Russell can hardly complain of his own treatment by the British Government; he must admit that, being in a madhouse...
...buildings put up for the "unsubstantial" creations of a Beethoven or a Mozart, a Verdi, a Gounod or a Wagner? How many feet of lumber cut, sawed and split-how many tons of coal raised from the mine and delivered-equal in value the influence on men of poems like the "Psalnt of Life," of songs like the "Marsellaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner"? Do I seem to exaggerate the significance of the thinker and his work?" said the late Professor Royce to his class one day. "He doubts, analyzes, pries into this and that...
...problematic outlook for the football season is always of paramount interest at the beginning of the college year. The presence of exceptional material never lends certainty to the final success of the team, for the possibility of serious injuries always exists. Like wise when there are few veterans included in the squad, there is always the chance of developing a high standard of team play and a spirit of fight which are often responsible for victories in the later games...