Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present system. To some people it might almost seem that the present system is for this very reason better, since it requires a man to show that during two or more years he has the ability and the energy to do work of a high order. As a matter of fact, a man who has attained distinction in courses no more advanced, let us say, than German A, or History 1, has by no means proved hat he has either the ability or the inclination to persevere; and if it is only the chance of an early election...
...have not yet done so be so good as to send in the first installment of their pledge to the Class Fund, as there is great need for ready money at this time to meet several payments now due? Less than one-quarter of the class have given this matter their attention, though it was agreed on the pledge cards that the first installment would be sent in before June 1. Checks should be sent to me at the CRIMSON Office and new pledge cards will gladly be mailed to any who have misplaced the one sent them...
...consequence. Yale has exceptionally good men in the sprints and field events, while Harvard is strong in the distance runs. The poor showing of the University team in the intercollegiate meet might lead to the belief that this year's team is comparatively weak, while as a matter of fact several members are holders of college records, and several others have closely approached records...
...tutor's seminar is doubtless better than no preparatory review at all. Yet a review of any real value to a man is something that he can do best for himself. Just as the act of note-taking in the first instance seems to impress the subject matter of a lecture upon the memory, so the process of reviewing and boiling down notes makes the reviewer at home with the entire field before him. The result is directly proportionate to the effort. The man who leaves the compilation and preparatory work to the tutor deprives himself of the most essential...
...optimistic editorial on the latest shibboleth, the Honor System, and then presents the reader with a poem entitled, "To Some Good Editor Who'll Think." The latter contribution is an attempt to write humorous verse in that singing, swinging metrical form found in "The Ingoldsby Legends." Since the subject matter of the poem, however, is not rollicking, but only noisy and tawdry, and since the metrical structure is so uneven that the stanzas seem but rows of rhymed, unaccented sentences, the author, happily unknown, can hardly be said to have attained his goal...