Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...member of the University, but especially Seniors, may obtain tickets at 90 cents each from A. D. Weld '18, chair man of the Spread Committee. This is at cost price. The tickets will be on sale about June 1. Engraved invitations will be ready May 15, and may also be obtained at Phillips Brooks House for ten cents each...
...college man has been noted since the wastrel days of the Goliards as a bacchant of the first degree. How much truth and how much poetical tradition there is in this reputation it is rather difficult to say. It is sufficiently true that each succeeding generation during its four short years of life endeavors through the medium of a few picked individuals to maintain the glory of the vine...
...college man does not drink. He gets drunk. The occasions of his getting drunk are varied and sporadic. A football victory, a visit to the metropolis, a check from home, the end of the examinations, a large party, a small party, may serve as the whywithal of a "spree." The aftermath consists largely in telling how much he drank, remembering with a triplicated record the sum of beverages which come his way. If a college man had no one to drink with, if he had no one to tell about it afterwards, he would be as abstinent as a sailor...
...South America we have no elective system. Every conceivable subject must be taken. We cannot specialize in any one department. If a man is going to be a lawyer, he must take all the courses in mathematics and chemistry just the same. This system does not produce as good specialists' as yours does, but it does produce a more cultivated man. An individual, after he has been educated in South America, has an extraordinary broad and liberal education. His interests have been cultivated so that he is not centered on one thing, but on many...
...country, too, we put the emphasis more on foreign languages than you do. French and English are always required, and the average man learns another language. The emphasis is all put on the practical side; we learn to speak the language. We do not learn to read it well, which you do, however...