Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body which will by representative of the dormitories? Let the Student Council, instead of nominating usual class officers, nominate men from each of the three halls for members of a Freshman interdormitory council. Each hall would elect a fixed number from its nominees. After organization, this body would select a president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer from its number and the remaining members would serve as heads of the various committees. Thus, while still retaining the advantages of Senior supervision, the administration of class affairs would be in the hands of a body in which practically every Freshman would have...
...recent years the Advocate has had a constructive editorial policy, but only at times. There would be opportunities for interesting articles or essays in the Advocate on the technique of modern football, on the teaching of literature at Harvard, on the decline of the discussion-group idea here to select a few topics offhand. If the editors of college literary magazines edited and wrote for their readers as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do, their creations would have vastly more vitality and probably just as much, if not more, literary merit. The aim of the editors should...
...after all, who are to strip? The masses or only a select few--only the lovely and symmetrical and artistical--or who so conceit themselves? A or Anne, may be chaste but clumsy; B, or Betsy delicate-minded but dumpy and dowdy; C, active and fond of dancing but ugly; F, feminine in feeling but fat and fubsy. Must they therefore cover up? Must only Grace, Beauty and Agility go cool whilst Fat swelters and Fubsy faints? If so may there not be an exclusiveness in Polka as in Piety--and a monopoly of nakedness as of righteousness--a Socialism...
...other resident students, three $200 prizes are offered for essays of high literary merit belonging to one of the following special groups: first, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering; second, Biology, Geology, Anthropology and Forestry; and third, Foreign Languages and Literature, ancient and modern. Competitors are at liberty to select the subjects of their essays, but the subjects must be approved in advance by the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes. No essay offered by a graduate may contain more than fifteen thousand words, it being understood that parts of doctoral dissertations are eligible...
Next in order of merit we would select "The Blue and the Grey," a story of the Civil War. That familiar piece of fiction which has for its theme the young southern officer, carrying despatches amid impossible difficulties, the Battle of Gettysburg and the tiresome elaboration about the relative positions of the opposing forces, is here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual...