Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...misses, perhaps, something in the nature of the essay. What has become of the periodical slam at the Classics--or the teachers of them, for the Classics themselves are impregnable--which we seem to remember in ante-bellum days? Yet the crisp editorials attest the power to produce the essay. A typical one, on the S. A. T. C., if rather one-sided and possibly even unfair, rigorously expresses what most of us think about the relation between College and the Government; and the reverent and discerning words of the editors on Theodore Roosevelt recall his connection, while in College...
...reports of the athletic conditions at the various eastern colleges seem to indicate that all sports are fast returning to a pre-war basis. Yale, Princeton, and most other colleges are working on the question of modified eligibility rules for men who have dropped a class by entering national service. It is also proposed to eliminate many of the non-essential features, such as the training table...
...would seem that the time has come for a final attempt to right conditions definitely or, the alternative, a frank admission that we cannot succeed with what we have. The danger of the situation lies in the passive acceptance of failure. D. M. LITTLE...
...advisable. Those who had seen the actual working of compulsion suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual almost totally offset the advantages of the training offered. Although we cannot express an opinion on the matter till a more definite plan is proposed, yet it would seem more reasonable to organize the new system with a view toward extending the opportunities rather than toward requiring the students to act against their inclinations...
...seems therefore that the attitude maintained by the College is not unreasonable, but in consideration of the phenomenal exigencies of the present situation, as have just been pointed out, a reconsideration of the policy of not awarding the returned soldiers the full amount of their scholarships would seem both desirable and justifiable...