Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe vitally in the reality of their studies. A frequent conference of one-half hour's duration is more valuable than hours spent in the lecture room, and hence it is very much to the point, that the best men devote some time to conferences even though this may mean reducing the number of hours they spend in lecturing...
...Although it is not realized by the general public," said Mr. Arliss, "workshop plays, produced in the semi-privacy of a small theatre are unostentatiously 'eating their way' beneath the mass of unworthy plays which we have to deal with. By 'unworthy' plays I mean the type commonly known as what the public wants,' but which it really does not want at all. The frivolous, plotless play has been largely brought on by the war, under the excuse of giving people something they can follow without thought or effort; but in such light productions, the mind is much more liable...
...gathering, including Bishop Lawrence, and Dr. John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. Surely attendance at this Conference will be a broadening opportunity to meet men from other colleges and other sections of the country. No less surely will it mean a distinct service performed for the ultimate good of the University itself...
...strongly advise all those college men who have recently been discharged from the army or navy to continue regular payments on their War Risk Insurance Policies. In the hurry of college life, it is very easy to forget these payments which will mean so much to them later on. If they neglect to keep up the payments now, they will never again be able to take up government insurance at these low rates, because the Government policies are to be issued only to those who served the nation in the army or navy...
...hard for us to understand how people can have found the English language serviceable from the days of Chaucer to our own without the new and now widely employed term "bolshevism." What does it mean? Answer: The result that will follow the success of the other fellow's idea...