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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sorts chafing at enforced inactivity. . ." Altho I have no quarrel to pick with the main point of the article concerning the desirability of a sense of humor' I do think the above quotation raises a point deserving consideration. The words that I refer to in particular are 'enforced in activity...
With the Senior vice-president as chairman, leaders from each class have planned that at Friday's meeting an orderly protest shall be made that Trustees confine their activities to administrative and financial work, that no professors be dismissed without the consent of the particular faculty, and that Professor Beard's resignation be refused...
...with their departure from the University. It has been found more desirable, however, not only for the informal team, but also for their opponents that Snow, Church, and Stone be allowed to continue on the team. One of the future opponents has even requested that they play in their particular game, if in no other...
This autumn, when most of us are out of sorts chafing at enforced inactivity, critical of the government, dissatisfied with the army, and in particular with its age limit of twenty years and nine months and in no way trying to conceal our misery, the few who still seem happy assume heroic proportions. We ask the secret of their cheer, and the invariable answer is their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject...
...thirty-five minute scrimmage with the Radio School team featured yesterday's practice of the informal University squad. In this first football of the season no attempt at scoring was made by either side, but the ball was shifted from team to team to emphasize particular points of offense and defense. The University eleven was given the ball the greater part of the time, and was able by long end runs and a few guard and tackle plays to take it down the field at will. Delayed pass formations also were very successful. One forward pass from F. C. Church...