Word: serious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring meeting of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, some important changes, involving serious modifications of the entrance requirements and the course of study offered after entrance, were authorized and have been announced by President Hibben. They are part of the large program of reconstruction which was undertaken immediately after the signing of the armistice...
After the interval of two years caused by the war the Hasty Pudding Club resumes its agreeable practice of furnishing diversion to an all-too-serious world. "Crowns and Clowns," the play of the year, adds another list of names, some doubtless to be famous in the years to come, to the many lists which have appeared in the frolics of the club for almost a century and a quarter. Curious enough it seems to learn that Joseph H. Choate, Charles Francis Adams and Phillips Brooks, all had their parts in the Pudding plays of older days. We like them...
...machinery of the University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject, for say fifteen minutes at a time? Or how many who have disliked to exercise their minds to that extent have talked to their Faculty Adviser upon the subject? Its very purpose would indicate that it may not be the simplest subject, but still...
...days during vacation but owing to the fact that three men of the first boat were absent because of illness the practice was a disappointment. The illness of the men in the first boat has necessitated a general shift in the make up of the eight and is a serious setback, especially since the Pennsylvania race is only three weeks off. In reference to Yale's unfortunate condition Coach Professor Abbott said that the coaches had never seen the harbor so rough and seldom had there been so many cases of sickness at one time...
Students who, because of serious illness or other unavoidable reasons were absent from the final tests at the end of the second term, and who wish to be given make-up examinations, should, if they have not already done so, file petitions immediately at the office, University...