Word: real
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there is a legitimate use for the so-called "snap" courses. When properly intermingled with solid subjects they afford a relaxation, and at the same time have a certain intrinsic value. If a business man attends a course of weekly lectures upon some subject in which he feels a real interest, he will often gain the information he desires without outside work of any sort. How much more helpful are two or three lectures a week by some well qualified instructor, combined with even a slight amount of individual preparation...
...songs, the mass meeting last evening proved that the familiar tunes are in no danger of being replaced. It is now scarcely ten days before the Yale game, and there is hardly time to learn songs which have little swing, and which have words unsuited to the music. The real test of a football song lies in the attitude of the men who sing it, and when everyone starts whistling a well-known tune as soon as a new song has been tried, the latter may well be considered condemned. We have a variety of songs which have proved successful...
...produce hasty and careless work; and in future the effort should begin several months ahead. Those who have been unsuccessful this season should not be content with one attempt, but should begin at once to study the class of song which is required, and endeavor to produce something of real merit and enduring popularity...
...parade to Soldiers Field on November 29. All men in the University are eligible to enter the competition. Compositions must be handed in at Holworthy 8 on or before November 16, and must be signed with an assumed name and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the real name of the composer...
...places to real pathos; at times, however, the writer is not equal to the tragic situation. E. E. Hunt's little poem, "With a Gift of Shakespeare's Sonnets," is decidedly above the average of undergraduate poetry, while A. W. Murdock's "Hymn to Life" is conventional in subject matter and sometimes obscure in language. J. H. Wheelock's "Sea-Poems" contain some good passages, but there is too much self-consciousness in the poems...