Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...direction. It's his sand and pluck that tell-his patience to learn the play, to master the detail, even when hard, and after all that's what a man must do afterward to succeed in life. He must stand fast, work hard, learn his lessons even though they seem wearisome. In a word, football is like life and life is like football. It isn't easy sailing, and success in either is like the search for the four-leaf clover-a lesson in faith, hope, strength and hard work...
...virtues and defects. The virtues may blind one to the defects, and vice versa, the defects, in some rare instances, may obscure the virtues. The defects of colleges, moreover, may, as with individuals, prove to be what Sir Thomas Browne has well termed the defects of their qualities.' This seems particularly true in attempting to draw comparisons from as unbiased and detached a point of view as possible, between two such different institutions as Princeton and Harvard. In the case of Harvard, the special 'quality' it would seem to possess is that of individualism. In the case of Princeton, fellowship...
Preparation for the spring track season has already begun at the different colleges. The coming season promises several surprises, since most of the colleges, except Pennsylvania, seem to report a dearth of material...
...subjects. Concentration necessitates the performance of a certain amount of advanced work, which is of greater advantage in developing mental power than a much larger amount of elementary work, which often consists merely in the acquisition of information, and does not necessitate any connected thought or analysis. It would seem, therefore, that the elective system were a success in forcing students to do more difficult and more beneficial work, but an administrative difficulty presents itself in the wise choice of a field for concentration...
...decidedly weak as the communication printed elsewhere indicates, in demanding a final choice of a special field for College work from Freshmen, often incompetent to judge; and it recognizes this weakness by allowing changes of decision, when the reasons seem sufficient. Cumbrous and disagreeable as it may seem to its critics, they must remember that it accomplishes--however much vacillation it may permit--three ends: specialization in one group to the extent of six courses; distribution in the three other groups to the extent of six courses; and a pretty careful reflection by students over their choice. The first means...