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Playing listlessly in the opening period, showing renewed spirit after the loaf, and staging a brilliant but ineffectual rally in the closing moments of play, the Freshman basketball team missed their second step on the season's schedule by losing to the quintet of the 1920 Club of the Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTLESS PLAYING LOSES GAME FOR 1925 QUINTET | 1/19/1922 | See Source »

...fine gentlemen, it is not we who should object to their "foot-loose, devil-may-care attitude". If they took an example from us they would throw up their jobs and loaf all day instead of a few hours. How does the bible put it? Pluck the mote out of your own eye first, or something like that. I don't know. I have been too busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it. EDWIN SEAVER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Oh No! My Fine Gentlemen" | 11/18/1921 | See Source »

...suggested that a man can loaf half a year or half a lifetime, then, after a few minutes of musical massage, jump in and accomplish feats to astonish the natives. But when the preliminary drill has been faithfully performed, such a period of relaxation before the final effort, be it examination, art or business, does marvelously heighten the powers of concentrated effort. --Boston Globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collecting One's Wits | 6/7/1921 | See Source »

Uncertainty as to how the summer vacation may best be spent always exists in the minds of many undergraduates until the examinations are upon us. Those who cannot afford to loaf at the seashore or seek liquid consolation in Europe or Canada are confronted with the important problem: What temporary employment is there available? A solution may be found in tutoring positions and the like, but the man who wants an open-air job, involving a not to too strenuous degree of physical labor, meets the greatest difficulty in placing himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHANGE FOR SUMMER WORK | 5/29/1920 | See Source »

...tendency in recent years toward too many social activities, while a few hold that the modern college student comes to his Alma Mater without any definite purpose and never acquired one, or as one editor puts it "college-bred seems to mean a four year's loaf." However, they all agree that it is a fact that college men and women are narrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/7/1920 | See Source »

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