Word: primes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When every man in the Senior class receives, as he shortly will, a postal requesting his co-operation and assistance, he should without hesitation send in his name as a participant in the work. It is a big enough problem to be the prime interest of everyone that graduates. But that of course is neither expected nor asked; what is asked--and righteously--is that everyone make it his "way-side" work, that everyone have always open a social service...
...intelligent and far-sighted choice of courses cannot be over-emphasized. All too frequently we hear the criticism that college students obtain no lasting benefit from the four years spent in their higher education simply because they do not correlate the subjects which they elect to study. The prime object of limiting the choice of electives is to obviate this criticism by directing the student's choice properly into the different fields of learning...
Lacrosse, practice for which will begin today, deserves well of the undergraduate body. As a game it possesses practically all of the advantages that were so strongly urged for soccer in two recent communications. It requires no particular bodily endowments, agility and quickness being the prime requisites. It offers a large number of men, even without previous experience, an excellent opportunity for exercise...
...prime object of a college education is commonly said to be the development of the ability to think logically and constructively. If this be true, examinations which call for something more than mere extensive knowledge of isolated facts are a far truer basis for grading students than are memory tests...
...history of the Council has been an unbroken record of inactivity and wasted opportunities. Starting with a wonderful chance to become of prime usefulness to the College, its energy, never very great, gradually decreased. The languid dissolution last week was the logical result...