Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...publishes this morning a vigorous editorial urging a transferal of the annual Commencement Exercises from Sanders Theatre, where they have been held in the past, to the quadrangle at the rear of Sever Hall. Last year the Alumni Association tried the experiment with success. The Bulletin goes on to say...
...spell-binders," backed by as few as 50 voters well trained in concerted cheering. Time and again the many, who could know very little of the respective candidates' merits, were won over merely by the volume of sound raised as each nominee's name was called. We venture to say that more than one class split can be traced directly to what seems to us now a very faulty system of Freshman elections...
...nearer the undergraduate heart than any other organization) probation far exceeds an occasional forbidden cigar or theatre party. It is far worse to Iose an excellent athlete for a whole season than to let an equally brilliant man break training once or twice a year. The opposition will say that with training a man is put on his honor, and breaking training is equivalent to breaking his word. Hence, the prevailing contempt of the act. This is as it should be. But why the breaking of mental training is any the less contemptible, we fail to understand. Perhaps the weight...
...inimitable readings. To those who have heard "The Bell Buoy," "The Critic," or "John Anderson" (not to mention the frequent requests as to the proper adjustment of ventilation, repression of noises, etc.), Professor Copeland needs no introduction. But for the benefit of all new men we would say that the Union Dining Room has a regrettably limited seating capacity and no one enters after 9 o'clock. We can conceive of no more profitable way of spending this evening than listening to Professor Copeland...
...work of Brooks House does not begin with the reception to Freshmen nor end with the University Teas. Suffice it to say that Brooks House is gradually being accepted among the undergraduates at large as more than a mere contribution box, and that the work carried on today includes more than supplying settlement workers, old clothes, and text books to charity. It includes a growing internal organization, with a gathering of the denominational groups, and also enrolls many men in Bible study classes where religious, moral, and other questions are discussed with a quiet freedom that has been of great...