Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University education, if it is to be more than a training ground for skilled workers, can not afford to dedicate itself to the professions at the expense of the arts and pure sciences. One of the main-stays of man's cultural existence, the ground on which the professions are built, the liberal education will give way to the competitive demands for specialized training only with a serious loss to everyone concerned...
...meeting of lettermen held yesterday afternoon, Ogden Phipps '31, of New York City, was elected captain of next year's squash team. He succeeds W. J. Iselin '29 leader and number one man on this winter's class A aggregation...
Whatever results the thoroughly advertised book guilds may have had by and large, they have not made Trinity College undergraduates read serious books in their spare time. But Dr. Cadman's daily counsel got under someone's skin and now every man in the Hartford school will read a good back. In fact, throughout the year each student is going to read a great number of good books selected from a list of recommended works. There is no connection between this requirement and any course. On the contrary, it is outside reading for pleasure--with two pages of typed notes...
...Fair talk as an avenue for popularity. And surely they will be able to sit down for fifteen minutes with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering. The mere mention of "The Decline of the West" and there will be no further doubt...
...contest was predicted to last three days and fifteen hours, meals being supplied by a neighboring restaurant, also patronized by Harvard undergraduates: There were five policemen added to the beat, on account of various threats of brickbats through a window and caffein tablets in the soup of the man who seemed to be carrying his class to victory. There is a room in Still-man infirmary and two trained nurses held in readiness for the first to succumb...