Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty which says that date is "as late as he ought to begin the study of his profession or the apprenticeship for his career." This American frenzy for an early plunge into life, though necessary in many cases, is a principle of doubtful merit. Harvard should at least ponder well before encouraging it so frankly...
...good many people besides the students at Princeton University would do well to ponder what President Hibben, in the course of the chapel address with which he opened the new term, told his boys about the "movies". He had warned them that, in full accord as he was with athletic interests and campus activities, they are not the chief reason for going to college. Then he picked out one "activity" as having little of his sympathy. "It is not really an activity," he said, and went...
...writing our virgin editorial, we naturally attempt to ponder on the principles of composition. These three: coherence, unity and emphasis; but the greatest of these is when to stop. Discuss the athletic situation; expound the intricacies of trilogical cooperation of malfeasance of subsidized athletes, of the situation in one's own college--but then to stop. Consider the tutors of the English department, their merits, demerits, and absence, and stop. Stop before so much as considering the advisability of compulsory Chapel. Expostulate on the pseudo-stone pillars on University Hall now painted white and palpably wooden; on the stone steps...