Word: means
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...judge by the size of the Freshman parade to Soldiers Field yesterday, football enthusiasm and class loyalty are still dormant in the members of 1913. The class will never have a better test of its mettle than this afternoon, for it will mean a sacrifice of self-interest to stand on the side-lines of the Freshman field while the University game is being played. But the first duty of Freshmen is to their class team, and enthusiastic support this afternoon will double the chances of victory...
...CRIMSON endorses heartily the movement for better singing and cheering at the football games. In the two games that remain to be played the spirit of the team will count for a great deal and may very possibly mean the difference between defeat and victory. There is no question that enthusiasm in the stands will help to instill this fighting spirit into the eleven...
...innovation is being tried this year in omitting Greek from the list of required subjects on the qualifying examinations. This does not mean, however, that Greek is not required for a degree at Oxford. Any student who does not offer Greek upon the qualifying examinations, must offer it in the Responsions which are held in Oxford towards the end of September of each year. Since the final election of Rhodes scholars is announced about January first, any man who has not passed in Greek on the qualifying examinations in October will have nine months in which to prepare it before...
...This result is still more grotesque, since both men figure at the top of the list with the middle group courses. Professor Palmer's ethics is the course most favored in the whole University; but his elementary course on Greek philosophy is not favored by any one. Does it mean that the quality of the courses is different? Not at all. The one course is taken by about twenty men who are of course all seriously interested in ethics and like it very much, while the other course is taken by more than two hundred with no specialistic interests...
...words of a prominent graduate, "in a strong, clean-cut, direct speech showed himself to be a man who at once impresses one with the idea that he can be trusted to do for the University the right thing at the right time." He said, "College training must mean something more than the bare intellectual sense. The college man is not to be made from books alone, athletics and the social side of college life are equally as important. The main business of the college, however is in fixing a standard for men. By this standard men go through life...