Word: proving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real sense the Japanese students in the University--and this consideration also applies to other foreign students--are our guests. They have come long distances to seek our hospitality, to learn our customs and ideals, and to adopt such of them as may be worth while. Sociologists prove to us that peace and prosperous intercourse exist between those nations which are most similar in traditions, ideals, and manners of living. It is, therefore, our duty as hosts of the foreign students, who come to seek and establish common bonds of interest to become aware of our opportunity and welcome them...
...Versailles Number of the Lampoon the unspoken words of a million readers are voiced in a criticism of the overdone war jokes. To prove the justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that...
Professor Mather Abbot, Yale's faculty crew coach, who will again take charge of the squad, has outlined Yale's rowing policy for the coming year as follows: "No matter how poor an oar a man may prove, there will always be a crew for him to row on; a coach to instruct him, and a final race for him to row in at the close of the season. The coaches will never dismiss a man from the river...
...CRIMSON trusts that save for these few instances the Directory will be found entirely accurate and that it will prove acceptable to the members of the University...
Next Tuesday the Junior and Sophomore classes will join the Seniors at the ballot-box. We hope they will prove more interested in their elections than were the Seniors...