Word: reason
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...philosophy in their lives--also in their sports. There is philosophy in soccer. Its a great game for Tom, Dick and Harry, to play at school, at college, and when they begin to develop thin hair and curly figures. Soccer deserves to be popular in America. There's a reason. R. A. DERBY...
...reason that the present day American college student knows so little about the game is that it is not the sport taken up by the small boy as soon as he is able to play any game. The recent adoption of the game by the public schools of Boston, whose example is being followed even by some of the boarding schools, however, assures Harvard an ever increasing quantity of men who have already mastered the rudiments...
...current number of the Advocate irresistibly suggests a conundrum asking the reason for its likeness to the Collection of Western Art in the Boston Museum. The answer is obvious; each contains one work of marked excellence relieved against productions of more or less ordinary merit. The extraordinary object in the Boston Museum is the Greek throne; the thing of distinction in the Advocate is Mr. Alken's poem...
...Hundred Dollar Bill," he employs the method of suggestion with good result, because he has not run it into the ground in the earlier part of the composition. Mr. Nickerson's "Defence of Musical Comedy" is commendable both in matter and expression. There is a good deal of sound reason in the brief that he holds for the value of musical comedy to our civilization but more significant is his suggestion of its exaltation to a higher plane. Is it not true that the two peculiarly American dramatic forms, the mu- sical comedy and the melodrama of the Grand Opera...
...been a rule of long standing that a candidate cannot become editor of both the Monthly and the Advocate. The reason for this rule is obvious and scarcely requires an exposition; but it is not obvious why a student may not compete in more than one of the four journalistic activities which College life supplies. Nor is it quite evident why the Lampoon has lately taken the selfish stand of debarring an undergraduate who has made the Advocate or CRIMSON from its own editorial staff. The three papers are as much alike as a hobby-horse, a Boston cab-horse...