Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rare occasions there may be some excuse for many demonstrations in class rooms, but of late such occasions seem to be the rule rather than exceptions. In spite of constant appeals from the professors and instructors, there will remain some ill-mannered persons who greet every unusual incident or remark with stamping and shuffling. When a lecturer tries to enliven the dry subject matter of a course by the introduction of interesting anecdotes or personal experiences, he is greeted with an uproar from those whose over-developed sense of humor blinds their sense of decency. The lecturer, very naturally fails...
There are certain business men who pride themselves on the entirely original remark that they do not wish to employ college graduates in their offices when it is possible to obtain young men whose education has been of a rigidly practical nature, without the frills which are acquired during four years residence in a university. From this attitude the question has arisen as to the real value of a college degree to a young man seeking purely business employment...
...wish it to be understood that that is their attitude there is no need of further argument as to whether the Statue exercises are a dead issue. But since we have no evidence that the Corporation actually wishes to take such a stand, it may not be impertinent to remark that there can be little danger of fire in the stands about the Statue because no one ever smokes during the brief interval of the exercises as is done at the baseball and football games on Soldiers Field...
...under discussion. The majority directors then printed the plan, and their argument in favor, at the expense of the Society but refused the same privilege to the minority. In their report, after pointing out that thirty men might, by combining, control the annual meeting, they naively remark "It is not inconceivable that such a revolution should be accomplished by persons who would think more of their own interests than of the interests of the Society...
...from the other. But we Oxford and Cambridge University men, like our athletic brethren with whom we have competed on the other side of the water, have taken up athletics not for a career or a profession but for exercise and sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark made by Garnier when he was told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles: "Well, I'm sorry," he said, "but after all it was a good race." Our duty as university athletes is, to adapt the words of George Washington, to raise an athletic standard...