Word: picks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Kulp, S. S. S., '87, is the sole aspirant for bicycle fame in the two-mile race at the games. He is a fair rider, but not exactly the man a good judge would pick out for a winner...
...large number of men in the class. One piece of descriptive writing is worth, to the student, half a dozen criticisms, no matter how well or carefully the latter may be written. It seems like reiterating a self evident truth to say that almost anyone can sit down and pick to pieces or show defects in the best of written work. But, does anyone think that merely because a person is able to show faults in some one else, he is also able to write perfect English himself and avoid all the defects and blemishes he has seen in another...
...acquired the ability to learn better and more quickly a particular branch of trade than a non-graduate, and is usually much more efficient after he has learned it. One trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap characters which every college sends out, and which neither education nor anything short of re-creation could fit for a prominent sphere of action...
...ignorant of the new rules. But the men chosen would be those who take an interest in such matters, and who would make it their business to keep posted. The changes in rules from year to year, are not so numerous but that a recent graduate could readily pick them...
...care." Few realize the importance and truth that is contained in these simple words and we believe that many of the students do not even give a thought about the instructors they elect courses under. Naturally a man reasons that in the choice of an elective he should only pick out those subjects, which will do him the most good, and care little as to what instructors he will come under; and while there is a great gain when a man conscientiously chooses a subject without regard to its softness, still there is much lacking if he does not realize...