Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Considering the number of men the Calles Government is mobilizing and the appointment of certain generals to lead the Federals against the Indians and the modern war methods to be employed, I believe that the main groups of the Indians will be broken up within 90 days...
...tutorial system in our universities is the main method of instruction there are no classes under instructors and lectures are for the most part optional. A student is assigned to a tutor and given reading to do. This gives much more responsibility to the student than does the American system, and encourages his initiative and originality...
...CRIMSON; J. L. Whedon '27, president of the Lampoon; H. W. Bragdon '28, Pegasus of the Advocate; and C. D. Coady '27, captain of the University football team. Each of these men will give a brief talk outlining the organization of which he is the head. The main speaker of the evening will, however, be Professor Kirsoop Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History...
...general McKinlock closely resembles the other Freshman dormitories, but there are some slight changes. It is built, like Gore and Standish, on three sides around a court, with the open side facing the Charles. But unlike these two, McKinlock's wings are not built at right angles to the main part, but slant out a greater angle. Instead of the usual dining room that is a feature of the other three sister halls, the new building has no dining room of its own, but has, instead, a large library, reserved exclusively for the entering class, and in which all books...
...professions--learned, scientific, or industrial--large mental enjoyments should come to educated men. The great distinction between the privileged class to which you belong--the class that has opportunity for prolonged education--and the much larger class which has not that opportunity, is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers, and gets therefore a much greater enjoyment out of life than the much larger class that earns a livelihood chiefly by the exercise of bodily powers. You ought to obtain here, therefore, the trained capacity for mental labor, rapid, intense, and sustained. That...