Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welcome the resumption of The Arts series of afternoon teas. They are valuable for more than the tea and cakes alone; they help to make the College think. We do not like to refer too often to intellectualism; like a great many others we are not quite sure that we know just what the term means. And it is probably more accurate to say that what The Arts promotes is interest, interest in the College as well as in the outside world, and interest in things material as well as in things mental. The program of the society should...
Undoubtedly these officers play an important part in the organization which elected them. At the least, they form, with their impressive titles, a definite body to refer to as a head with the responsibilities which that implies. The same thing is demanded of the Junior and Sophomore Officers in the University. Some authority must be vested somewhere. A class without officers of some kind is like the fraternal order mentioned above, without the Great Incohee and the rest. It is as helpless as a hen without a head...
...experience he can look over and beyond the temporary sore spots of today. His speech was colored with all the farsighted liberalism which has been the keynote of his life. In most men's careers it is possible to pick out a span of years, ten or twenty, and refer to it as "his day". President Eliot showed yesterday that "his day", as every college class has felt for the past fifty years...
...knew how his chasing after fire-engines in his youth had helped him for college. Compulsory Freshman athletics Las proved so beneficial that some regret that its scope is not broader; that Sophomores, as at other colleges, if not all undergraduates, are not compelled to take part. We again refer to the lethargic few who like to exercise but who have not the necessary energy to take the plunge without prodding...
...chamber, that of Japhet, according to Dr. Getsinger, points conveniently at the North Star just as it was indubitably intended to do when first built thirty thousand years ago when the earth was at the same point in its processional cycle. As for the animals of the Ark, they refer to the symbolic or spiritual animals of the Zodiac--for of course it is only to be expected that such a powerful race intellectually would select precisely a Bull, a Crab, a Goat, a Water-Bearer, etc., from all the possible things there were to choose from.-- "The animals went...