Word: saxonizes
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...benefits and eagerness of youth golf deserves every facility and stimulus which can be given it. But two hundred thousand dollars looms rather large on a college horizon--and even if some generous benefactor should present the entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might not be justifiable to sink it in a golf course. Universities require many things; this one in particular has certain pressing needs which seem to follow a sort of Malthusian law with to yard to the supply. The golfers will gave to be philosophic...
...venerable savants of the French Academy decided to admit the following Anglo-Saxon sporting terms into the French language: challenge, camping, bookmaker, cricket, Boy Scout, champion, bridge. The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected...
...because their vocabularies are so limited that they have no other means of expression". After all, this reflection on one's vocabulary is only a sly shot at the college author fair target but there are certainly occasions, which Dr. Fitch neglects, on which anything but solid, sturdy. Anglo-Saxon profanity would be inappropriate and since these occasions are by no means rare in college days, proficiency in the art should be a point of pride. It is a poor compliment to the college man that his best awarding should be likened to the rude, uneducated and really embryonic curses...
...English Department, several marked changes are included in the new provisional elective pamphlet for next year. These revisions include the abolition of "snap", composition courses and the alteration of the instruction in English literature so that there will be a course to cover every period from Anglo-Saxon times up to the present...
...other important point in the new system is the chronological arrangement in which the literature courses are to be arranged, instead of the haphazard potpourri which they represent at present. By guaranteeing that no important period of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present will be neglected, the faculty of the department makes possible a much more nearly perfect grasp of the development of literature, and incidentally guides the student toward the natural preparation for English divisionals. If this same system could be carried over to other departments, notably that of History, another perceptible advance would be achieved...