Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the Cercle Francais to carry on entirely without the help of professional coaches or actors, prompted though it may have been by unpublished practical considerations, follows satisfactorily the tendency on the part of undergraduate activities toward a purer amateurism. Such technical guidance as may be necessary is amply provided for in the participation of a few experienced graduate students interested enough to offer the value of their knowledge in exchange for a return intrinsic in the activities themselves. The consequent removal of an authority made fearsome by its measurement in dollars and cents injects a healthy consciousness...
...restricted their work to the houses which belonged to the last occupation of Nuzi, destroyed by fire about 500 B. C. They made only tentative penetrations below the floor level, but these sufficed to show that important ruins lay underneath, dating from earlier occupations. In these lower depths we may hope to find objects of finer quality than anything yet found on the site, as has often occurred in Babylonian exploration...
...regrettable that our resources may not enable us to make during this season full exploratory tests of the underlying ruins. Several prehistoric mounds of the vicinity and a nearby cemetery of the Nuzian era invite the explorer...
...once unshakable bond connecting Law students, midnight oil, and lack of time for activities has been at least slightly loosened by the injection of a competitive key into the dry labors of the men from the North. The old dogma of the graduate's dull life may still hold firmly, but a Harvard-Yale debate by these same graduates gives an opening for its refutation...
...growing despondency of leader in the Phillips Brooks House has at length turned to a forum as the logical means of curing the apathy that fogs undergraduate interest and understanding in the House. Two leading questions have been set to bring about the discussion that may solve the present difficulty...