Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...print an editorial on Saturday criticising the cutting of the University crew squad. To those concerned I would like to say that any group of men who so desire may get up a scrub eight and row from Weld. Contrary to the opinion expressed in your columns I might also add that there are now sixty University candidates rowing from the Newell boathouse which to my knowledge is the largest squad ever retained. The cut which sent about twenty men to Weld last week was made later than is the custom. HENRY A. MURRAY...
What the Union needs more than anything else is spirit,--in a large sense. We are told that it is not a purely public institution, philanthropic in its conduct of lectures, and entertainments, but a democratic club, much like the large institutions in a large city. Yet when the undergraduate enters the building the atmosphere is cold, the rooms not too homelike, and the service decidedly in different. What the Union needs is "enmasse" enthusiasm. It can well do without an elephantine "frattiness," but it does need friendliness. It does need to avoid that lingering air of decay...
...illuminating facts. This sort of publicity does the society good, and accounts for the growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle in the eyes of the University world...
...majority of men in College today do not yet realize that the lacrosse team offers more to the individual than any other athletic team representing the University. Therefore I should like to use your columns as a means of notifying them of what opportunities they are letting pass away unnoticed...
...even with comedy overdone--are indeed preferable to the usual run of undergraduate smartness and veneer. At the close--beautiful as one finds little Rosalie's roguish kiss--it seems better that the boy should have worshipped from afar unappreciated, as must be so often the case with his like. The success of "Rosalie" once more enforces the lesson to portray the life you know: even "Malbrouck," fancifully conceived and tastefully executed, lacks reality beside it. The author of "Malbrouck" to conclude might do well to excise adjectives especially when, as too often, they run in pairs