Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...handicap track meet and later an informal meet with M. I. T. are included in the plans for the fall season. With a number of experienced track men of former years out again this year, the prospects for a successful season seem favorable. Chief reliance in the distance events will be placed on H. D. Costigan '20 and D. H. Worrall '20; in the middle distance on D. F. O'Connell '21 and W. H. Goodwin '20; quarter-mile, E. O. Gourdin '21; high and broad jump, C. G. Krogness '21; and pole-vault, R. W. Harwood...
Three hundred and fifty men seem to prefer the cafeteria system and have chosen Foxcroft Hall as their eating place. The attendance at the two University dining halls now equals that of any normal pre-war year. It was only exceeded when the large dining rooms became the mess hall for the Naval Radio School...
...Lamont's effective plea for the Endowment Fund I am estopped from commenting; but I would like to point out how vital is the appeal lie makes for the proper equipment of chemistry and the establishment of a mobile fund. Neither the poetry nor the book reviews seem to me good. The first has real facility; but it represents that stage of development where words are more to the writer than ideas. The book reviews display too little knowledge of the subjects with which they deal; and they are too perfunctory in character to make any real assessment possible...
...general wide development. College should teach men to face life, not merely a particular phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
...greatest single feature. The chance offered here of meeting and becoming acquainted with men not only from one's own college, but from many others, is considered most valuable for talking over common problems and ideals and comparing one's opinions on these subjects. Such problems or questions seem to most of the delegates easy of solution in the friendly conferences with some sympathetic and experienced leader; others have gained information and practical advice which has proved invaluable in later years...