Word: realness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...
...Kaltenborn '09 closed a very amusing address in which he quoted humorous anecdotes in regard to the relations between instructor and instructed, by saying that the scholar's real merit was not what he had done, but what he might do, not that he had won high marks but that he had laid the foundation for things really worth while...
...importance of good class crews as one of the prime factors in the building up of successful University crews should never be underestimated. Material in the class crews which shows real promise is liable at any time to be taken up to the University squad...
Competitors are advised that the studies should be thorough, expressed in good English, and although not limited as to length, should not be needlessly expanded. They should be inscribed with an assumed name, the class in which they are presented, and accompanied by a sealed envelope giving the real name and address of the competitor. If the competitor is in Class B, the sealed envelope should contain the name of the institution in which he is studying. The papers should be sent before June 1, 1909, to J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago...
Coach Wray has been re-engaged on a five years' contract to coach "whatever crew the captain of the University crew shall at any time designate,"--the condition of his original engagement. Though the saving clause is thus retained the real meaning is obvious: Coach Wray's regime has been a success and is to be prolonged. Members of the University who have watched his methods know that he has established a system and inspired a confidence beyond anything the old plan of graduate coaching with perennial changes and reiterated mistakes could hope for. We welcome his continuance...