Word: plain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...apparently would rather see evolve some way to unify the college and the Sheffield Scientific School than to start in and raise an additional endowment and set up a "third college" with less study of mathematics and the classic languages. On the other hand, it is plain that he looks with some favor, at least, on a closer approximation to the English university ideal, with the university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that...
...track team, to be successful, depends on long and careful development. In no other field is there so much opportunity for improvement by dint of plain, hard work. Moreover, no time is so propitious for such work as are the long, empty winter months. The whole paraphanalia of organized athletics is at the disposal of the candidate. He will receive careful and scientific training. In no other sport will he be assured of so certain a return for work done faithfully...
Robert Francis Kelley '15, Charles Wyman, Jamaica Plain...
Henry Hoyt Carpenter '16, Bigelow, Jamaica Plain...
...celebrations are scheduled this week in honor of the triumphant football team,--a reception and a dinner. In view of the facts that those in charge of the dinner have made it plain that it is "primarily for graduates" and that the Union entertainment this evening has been arranged for the purpose of showing undergraduate appreciation to the men who defeated Yale, it is quite evident where the choice of most undergraduates will fall. True, there are draw-backs for non-members of the Union, but then it should be considered the dinner will cost almost half as much...