Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advantage. In other words, "clappers" are the instruments of a partition crowd which is unwilling to give the opposing team a fair chances to do its best. So before any student purchases one of these mechanical noise-producers, he should consider carefully what would be the combined effect of, say, ten thousand such instruments at the game tomorrow. The occasion would degenerate into a confused bedlam of noises, and organized cheering and singing would be impossible. But worst of all, Harvard men would be open to the charge of resorting to clasp, unfair and professional lactics in order to disconcert...
...subject to be considered Monday will be "The Political Situation." It is especially desired that the political clubs be well represented, and the presidents of the various organizations have been asked personally to attend. Every man, however, who has anything of interest to say will be heard. Discussion is to be limited to ten minutes for each speaker. If the plan proves successful, announcement will be made later of future forums and the subjects which will be discussed at each...
...Essay on Man" is a courageous attempt to do a difficult and dangerous thing. For the scope of the paper is almost as wide as the title suggests, and it is hard to write something new about "Man" in two columns and a half. When an essayist begins by saying, "There are men who say the commonplace in a commonplace manner," he sets a great temptation before the reviewer--a temptation which the present reviewer with difficulty resists. When Mr. Thayer next classifies men according to their ways of expressing themselves, he ought to find a place for those guilty...
...saying, "A good beginning makes a good ending," is universally applicable. Especially is it true when applied to the way in which the men in College, and the Freshmen in particular, go at their work during the first of the year. To the men of the entering class of nineteen sixteen it may be well to say that the November hour examinations, seemingly so far distant, are in reality but a short time away, and that, in coping with these initial examinations, a solid grounding in one's courses is more than necessary. The man who makes sure...
Nineteen coaches have been in charge of practice at Princeton during the past week, which has been marked by long scrimmages and punting drills. While it is safe to say that Pendleton will be seen in the line-up at the start of the play, it is not expected that he will remain in the game more than a few minutes. The only changes to be made since last Saturday in the team which will oppose Syracuse is at right tackle, where Penfield will replace E. Trenkham...