Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just half a century ago, the CRIMSON, remarked that there were now 14 candidates for the University crew, and adds that they "have been pulling seven hundred and fifty strokes and running two miles daily." This would seem to be pretty strenuous work for candidates for a crew during their period of training, but the CRIMSON puts the candidates through the arid bath of journalistic criticism. One can scarcely imagine the CRIMSON of today, or any college paper, getting away with this little resume of candidates...
...Faunce's suggestions are thoughtful and pertinent, and they doubtless would provide a satisfactory test of the candidate's capacity to profit by a college education if they were conscientiously answered. But the difficulty would seem to be that most prospective collegians are likely to consider that the matter of their personal fitness is not worth much thought, inasmuch as the question is neither pressing nor easy to solve. College is usually regarded as a matter of course,--to be taken or discarded on its objective merits. It is a rare thing when unsuitability and failure are judged in advance...
...seems, indeed, that of all people interested in a boy's fitness for college, he himself is the least capable of judgement. Except in the extreme cases where a predilection for business life or an equally inherent studiousness precludes the possibility of a change, it would seem a very difficult matter to decide whether or no a moderate interest in things intellectual might not be developed into a genuine appreciation, or, on the other hand, a seemingly scholarly bent may be only transient. If Dr. Faunce's test could ever be satisfactorily applied it would certainly go a long...
...most militant feminists of Europe, is planning to raise another issue. It is hoped that the "international woman's movement" will soon be able to set up in Geneva a committee to work for equal rights for women in all legislation of the League of Nations. It might seem logical for the women of America, at least, to bring about this country's entrance into the League before they plan to take an active part in its affairs, but evidently all petty questions of nationalism and political policy are to be thrown over in loyalty to the larger cause...
...score of Harvard's victory over Holy Cross nearly two weeks ago. In that game at Soldiers Field Davidson was knocked off the hill in the third inning by the Crimson batters. Comparative scores mean little or nothing in sports, but the results of these two encounters might seem to indicate improvement of the University nine that would give it an edge in today's game...