Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner with which Faculty advisers guide freshmen at the outset of their undergraduate careers. I should say, rather, fall to guide. There seems to be an idea that the freshman year, with its full quota of prescribed courses, is rather a waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction of a job well done. I recall that the gentleman to whom...
...world. As in inevitable in an restitution most of whose growth has taken place within a comparatively few years, omissions occurred and the gift from the family of the late William Auguastha White '63, as announced elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, will fill one of the most serious of these...
...rather less widely accepted now than at the time of their introduction, for, like so many of the lofty ideas accepted without question under the stress of circumstances, they have been viewed askance of late by the new philosophers of pessimism. Whatever the final verdict, there is one serious lack in the awards instituted shortly after the war, that is being to some extent replaced. The concession to the spirit of 1918 in omitting the countries recently enemies of the United States needs no longer to be made, and the number of American students at present in Germany and Austria...
Sunday night is the time when the Pops offer their most serious productions. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven with the Eroica--all these composers have been represented not merely by selections, but by complete and capable performances of some of their greatest works. Whether appreciation of a long symphony ends with the coming of spring is uncertain; at any rate, these concerts have gone upon the opposite asumption, and the results have been distinctly gratifying. Evidently the public is not completely satisfied with the usual program of shreds and patches. The Pops are hardly ready to take rank as a continuation...
Included in the program of the conference are many lighter diversions to break up the serious work of the meeting. Athletics will be participated in each afternoon, with Coach William Wood of Wesleyan in charge. Baseball, swimming, and tennis are planned. Music and stunt performances also play a part in the conference program...