Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unnecessary evil and acting on their conviction, quit wearing them. The question was then brought before the Senior sections of the various clubs, and the matter was carefully considered from every point of view. The Senior members of twelve clubs have seen that for a visual social distinction like club hat bands and ties to be the fashion on the campus was directly opposed to the democratic ideals of the place and did much harm. Now it is no longer the fashion. There can be no doubt to any reasonable minded person, that this action of the Senior class...
...outset all who join the class will be asked to write a short paper stating their ideas on religion in general, the nature of their religious problems and the like. The discussions will be based upon these papers and will be extended to cover allied topics. Professor Royce conducts at Yale a similar course, which is part of the curriculum. The course has there attained remarkable success and it is believed that the discussions here will be of much interest to those who attend regularly...
...Such as showing would suggest that personal contact between Faculty and student body is freer and more instructive here than elsewhere. Yet so many are the courses given in abstruse and advanced subjects, where the professor collects a small circle of pupils for research work and the like, that in the large introductory courses this is by no means the case, the ratio there being generally 50 to one and often much higher. Unfortunately these latter are the courses where the need of personal contact is greatest, since the student is a novice in the field, ignorant of phraseology...
...reaches the sum of $1000, when its income is to be used for the purchase for the College Library of books of a military or patriotic character. The rest of the money over and above $500 will be spent from time to time in buying books of a like character. All the volumes acquired will have a special bookplate...
...subject of derision and contempt among the nations of mankind, would be to abandon the work of upbuilding the United States Navy and to refrain from fortifying the Panama Canal. The conduct of the misguided men who advocate such policies stands in the most striking contrast to work like that of Elihu Root at The Hague last summer, work which represented in the highest sense applied morality because it represented the successful performance of that most difficult feat, the efficient putting into practice in any concrete case of the principles which must obtain if we are ultimately to establish justice...