Word: meres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pudding play the thread of the plot may be never so tenuous--it may be reduced to a mere "vibration"; the "stunts" may be perfectly irrelevant, even unblushingly lugged in, and may outweigh all the rest; but so long as the music is gay--with some of the solos pretty; so long as the action is amusing, and the whole thing is given with gusto--that is all we have any right to demand of a Pudding play...
...English public believes also that city government in England is efficient because it is in the control of the best men elected by the people. But an investigator, armed with the thought that the council is not a model body, finds that in well-governed boroughs it is a mere check on the rule of permanent experts, and that in poorly governed boroughs the experts are under the control of a powerful council...
Whether a man's doctrine be high or low, he recognizes in the communion the carrying to its highest point the idea of worship, so that it cannot be confused with mere inward meditation. The Christian declares that God, although the ultimate reality, is so far personal that he can enter into relations with man. The supernatural nature of the events which led to the founding of the Christian Church, the idea of the cross, and of the immortality of the soul, are quite alien to that closed circle contemplated by the materialist philosopher and the more ornamental theory...
Both men and women take part in inter-urban games, and teams are often made up of both. In general athletics are taken up with great system, more as a science than as a mere pastime. Each school has its own gymnasium and its own instructor, who has made a careful study of his work. As a result, the physical development of the average Dane is excellent...
...justifiably devotes most space to those topics which are of the greatest undergraduate interest. And if the undergraduates are more generally interested in athletic news than Noble lectures, it is rather the latter's tastes than the CRIMSON's allotment of space which needs correction. In other words, the mere fact that a subject is of especial intrinsic interest is not always enough to advertise it as much as a subject intrinsic interest is not always enough to advertise it as much as a subject infinitely more trivial, but one in which every undergraduate is primarily and directly interested. Lastly...