Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...
...results of the second day of the Phillips Brooks House financial campaign show a deplorable lack of spirit upon the part of the canvassers and canvassed. The former are going about their collections in a desultory and half-hearted manner which is largely responsible for the lack of contributions. On the other side the students, especially the numerically large lower classes, are displaying a financially elusive tendency which bodes ill for final success. If the Association is to obtain the money it must have to continue its important work, a general awakening to the situation must occur. It is unthinkable...
President Taft, in his message to the University, speaks in this manner: "Indifference and even opposition will be met, but among you college men this must not be." In other words the colleges should lead in the discussion of this vital matter as they have led in such discussions through all history. If thoughtful men of the world are unable to reach any conclusion in regard to it and the whole proposition is lost in the diplomatic shuffle we shall be forced to admit that as our nation was unprepared for was so is it unprepared for peace...
...classes that candidates for class officers shall be nominated by petition, and that only when insufficient nominations are secured by this means shall the class officers make additional nominations are secured by this means shall the class officers make additional nominations, has proved inadequate in recent class elections. The manner in which this constitutional provision worked in the 1920 and 1921 elections shows clearly that an amendment to the organic law of these classes might well be made...
...took over a great many tasks that were demanded of it and the fact that it did not accomplish every one in a manner to bring praise from everybody cannot be a very serious fault. Often the work of the organization is condemned because one secretary was taken as an example of the remainder of the men in France. When it is considered that there was supposed to be one secretary to every five hundred soldiers the impossibility of every man measuring up to the standard set by the soldiers is seen. Think of the films that have been showing...