Word: resultants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of contributions to the Advocate competition was thirty-one. The result will be announced on Friday...
...approval," why was it not recommended to the faculty as a possible improvement over our present system? The difficulty is that the student members as a whole do not realize what is expected of them. Why does the committee exist unless for action, as well as discussion? Discussion without resulting action is practically worthless. To this fact that they do not appreciate their powers is due the result that three months of conference have produced two resolutions that, as regards weight of thought, could just as well have been passed at the first as at the last meeting. By results...
...When the question of restricting membership to the Union was discussed last spring many doubts were expressed as to the advisability of making any change. The past year had been an unusually prosperous one for the society, and many felt that a movement towards any exclusiveness in membership might result in a lessening of the interest which the college at large would take in the debates of the Union. In making a report for the past half year your Executive Committee takes pleasure in saying that these fears have not been realized; that, on the contrary, greater interest...
...writer of such a criticism, we still feel that the courtesy of the press ought to have influenced the expression. The kindly feeling which has long existed between the various college papers, cannot easily be destroyed by criticisms of such a nature, but more pleasant relations will result in the future if a more generous spirit is shown. It is true that differences of opinion must always exist as to the relative merits of our different papers, but if we are called upon to express those opinions, let us remember that the manner of our expression will often betray...
...poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what he has neither seen nor felt. Of course you can often relate what you have not actually beheld; but still you must have something on which to base your ideas; you must have before you a real fact or passion...