Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course this is not sport; its proper designation would be unpleasant for a Harvard man to write. If the practice, though wholly unjustifiable, helped Yale teams to win, it would seem like "squealing" for a Harvard man to suggest that it be discontinued. In view of the fact, however, that during the last six years Harvard has beaten Yale three times and tied her twice at football, and has won four out of the last seven annual series in baseball, and six races in succession at New London, it is evident that "rattling tactics" have not produced the effect desired...
...help in correcting the impression which so many have had of the Diplomatic and Consular Services, we should like to add, regarding the latter, that the popular idea that it can be entered only examination is false. A college graduate can go directly not the clerical staff of the Service without preliminary examinations and loan work from there to the official staff. The Government, moreover, is very desirous of getting more college men into this department, which makes it even worth while for those who have ever considered its possibilities to learn, its details by inquiry at the Employment Office...
...believe that it would be equally popular today. This is the one demand to which the University does not cater. The University lunch-counter forces jam on the unwilling 'Freshman but, after creating the taste, is invariably all out of jam for the Sophomore of average digestive powers. Like Alice through the Looking Glass, he is offered "jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today...
...complete reversal of policy with regard to English Composition was, we believe, an economic one. The new policy continues, apparently, from force of custom, though it has its advocates. They argue, among other things, that the average man taking a Composition course regards writing correct English as a stunt, like tight-rope dancing, to be performed only on special occasions in the class-room. This argument has some truth in it, but it is fair to suppose that a man will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment in his daily work. Moreover...
...musical critics, like the poor, will presumably be always with us. What is needed is not a campaign for their extermination, but for their improvement...