Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Amherst College, a woman was heard to explain to her companion that "Stuart Walker wrote one of these plays and Clyde Fitch wrote 'Gammer Gurton's Needle.'" The fact that Clyde Fitch was not born until some two hundred years after the writing of the comedy did not seem to count. But the conversation brings to light several interesting facts about the actual authorship of the play, generally attributed to John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and formerly resident master of arts at Christ's College. However, there is no conclusive evidence of John Still's authorship...
...lamentable ignorance of this necessary minimum has been generally interpreted as indicating that our college students do not read the war news, and they have been scolded in many a chapel talk and editorial for neglect of the papers. To us, the results of this quiz seem to show that they are guilty of something far less excusable. We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it. Such diligence and complete absorption in the required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would...
...School have endeavored to fulfill; and the steady growth of the student body, now representing the graduates of seventy-two colleges from all parts of the country, the hearty co-operation and support of leading business men, and the wide demand for the product of the School seem to indicate a substantial measure of success in working out the comparatively new problems of education for business...
...spirit is evident in the new number, although nothing is said about it; indeed, the only reference to the change in policy is an announcement that the next issue will appear on May 15. But the editorials and contributed articles alike reflect the "up-to-dateness" which the editors seem to be striving after. They also indicate that the Illustrated is to be more than ever a strictly Harvard publication; three "other colleges" are mentioned in just twenty-one lines, ably concealed among the advertising pages. The pictures share the spirit of the rest of the issue. All of them...
Practice races between the various shells, formerly a feature of the workouts, seem to have been abandoned since the recess. The first between any important crews will be held this afternoon by the Senior and Sophomore eights. Yesterday, however, the fourth Freshman beat the fifth. The crews raced in the Basin for about a mile upstream from Cottage Farm Bridge. At the finish the winner led by several lengths...