Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...living on the same pay they received years ago? A man cannot do his best when he is constantly required to work overtime and outside of his regular duties in order to make both ends meet. Our correspondent's theories are delightful but scarcely convincing. It is at least novel to see an undergraduate demanding "personal sacrifice" from his instructors...
...Great American University is as mythical as the Great American Novel. The longer we have to wait for it, the less confidently do we expect it. But that is no reason for not making our universities more national than they are now. Princeton is not the only such institution to realize the advantage, if not indeed the necesisty, of enlisting all parts of the country under her banner. New York Evening Post...
Dean Briggs offers us a suggestion to solve our perplexities by creating a Department of Athletics. Novel as the idea appears to many, it is, in reality, a very old one, revived in a certain measure, as is pointed out, by some of the Western colleges but tracing its origin to Grecian times, when gymnastics and the liberal arts had an equal part in a young man's training...
Coming after a period when welfare organizations have conducted their campaigns for millions the modest drive of the Boy Scouts of this vicinity for $60,000 is a novel contrast, No organization has been more patriotic or done more, in proportion to its opportunities, to aid in war work. And its request for funds to continue its work deserves to meet with the most substantial support from the public at large...
...horror's head horrors accumulate." In this age of insurgence social and aesthetic it is natural for them to seek novel effects for novelty's sake, preferring a bad new use to a good old one, just as vicious people crave new sensations. With due allowance for these tendencies of youth and of the decade, this number of the Advocate is creditable; its ambitions are worthy; its attainments are not mean; and it is much better than some of its predecessors. L. B. R. BRIGGS...