Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this same year, 1879, The Echo, the first college daily, sprang up to live three years of unsuccessful life and be supplanted with hardly a struggle by the Herald in 1882. According to the Advocate it was hard to say what feature of the Echo was most acceptable to its readers, "the vulgarity of the first year, the insipidity of the second, or the negligence of the third...
...ends with an editorial on "College Life" by the same gentleman, rather hazily thought out and very much too long. Between, lie a story or two, a charming imaginary letter of Horace to Maecenas by Mr. S. L. M. Barlow, a number of poems and a jaunty, not to say fresh, review of a new book on "Faust". The poems all have sincerity, imagination and force, but as sometimes happens in undergraduate verse, they are not all crystal clear. Mr. Nathan's "Death", after three or four readings conveys a certain sense of vastness but very little more; Mr. Cummings...
...needles to say that the team needs the hearty support of the whole undergraduate body. There is no less need for a cheering section at the baseball games than at the football games, and in the important mid-season games that are coming on it is especially desirable that the stands be well filled. To wait until the "big games" is to admit that the only reason for going is to see the game and that the support of the team is negligible...
...either thought or expression. Nor would everybody call all the critical opinions expressed in this number of the Illustrated sound. Most critics, I think, as they have read Mr. Herrick's novel, "Together," have had such difficulty in remembering who's who among the characters, that they would not say with the kindly author of "Some Harvard Writers" in the Illustrated that "Together" is notable for its "fine sense of form" and that it is "surcharged with a life the reality of which no one can question...
...fourth year of school work. However, provided the applicant for admission offers both elementary Latin and Greek he will be allowed to enter with 15 1-2 units of school work. Just how much influence this provision will exert in increasing the study of Greek is hard to say. At present most of those who are studying Greek are doing so to teach it later; and so it goes on, teachers instructing future teachers. This state of affairs may be likened to a dog chasing its own tail and finally dropping exhausted through his efforts. The aversion for the Greek...