Word: meres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Many of us are apt to attribute to what we call "the Harvard type" an attitude of more or less bored indifference to mere brute athletics, while feeling a smug assurance of our own enthusiastic virile support of our teams. And yet, year after year, we go to the great game and submit to being out-sung and out cheered by these disciples of boredom...
...long standing: "Neither the Office nor the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has power to excuse any student from any examination or other test that an instructor may wish to require." That is, the Dean meant that the Office would not discipline the students for the mere act of cutting or absenting themselves from Cambridge. Beyond this his permission did not and could not extend...
There is danger in the editorial, for it fails to distinguish between the explorer and the mere aimless wanderer. Perhaps the four years of college are intended for "mental browsing," but unless some of that which we browse on is digested, wherein lies its value? A little too much emphasis is laid by the editorial on going out for everything, not quite enough on doing well what...
...Freshmen, too, should have them. Then, with everyone running about with a class emblem in his lapel, the useful simplicity of the present distinction of the class button will give way to bewildering and fruitless intricacy. Fancy the effectiveness of class buttons when they require more than a mere glance to be distinguished...
...Commons still remains very bad. At supper the bread was mere dough; that is, it was not half baked. I have not eaten in commons for a week past one dollar's worth of anything what- ever...