Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last spring we took occasion to remark that a very small percentage of the $1200 annual income from the tennis courts was spent on their improvement. Considering their notoriously poor condition, we thought it strange that so much money should be allowed to flow into channels in no way connected with tennis. It seemed to us only fair that the men who contributed this $1200 should have the best possible equipment under the circumstances. We ventured to point out that this was far from the case, that a certain sum of money, contributed by the large number...
Harvard has recovered. Such appears to be the universal opinion of football critics. And men who on November 5 said that Harvard could not defeat Yale, are beginning to think better of the remark. Two factors have led to a reconsideration: Yale was unable to run up as great a score on Princeton as was Harvard, and Harvard fairly defeated the team which plainly outclassed Princeton. Hence, Harvard stock, so to speak, rises accordingly, Yale declines, and all goes merrily--until next Saturday. Then the crash comes and we must wait for another chance, when we shall, of course, profit...
...spontaneous satire of this sketch is that irresponsible wit of undergraduates which is usually ignorant, sometimes cheap, yet often the arrow to the bull's-eye. When the Advocate wishes to be amusing it can be the most so in this vein. Otherwise, the issue invites the remark of a biographer of Hawthorne in the period when that author was journalizing over the progress of his cabbages and carrots: "There seemed to be a general vacancy in the range of his vision...
...wish to offend the writer of the verse when I say that his work displays a certain thoughtlessness and hasty ignorance which he himself would have been the last to allow to take the form of print had he stopped to reflect. It may be worth while here to remark that, contrary to the apparent implications of the verse, the Pope is believed by Catholics to be neither impeccable as a man, nor necessarily and in all cases infallible as a priest in giving voice to his decisions. Nor is he in the habit of passing judgments on trivial matters...
There is also a summary of the annual post card canvass on college courses. The most interesting thing about it is the invariable appearance of Professor Palmer's Phil. 4 at the head of the list. The next most interesting thing is a remark on the editorial page that "the more notorious snap courses are all noticeably low down." The sooner the student body learns from its own experience that choosing a course merely because it is a "snap" is an uninteresting and unpleasant as well as an unprofitable adventure, the better for all concerned...