Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp contrast to the flood of applications for tickets to the Yale hockey game, the demands for tickets to the Princeton contest on February 18 have been comparatively few. The applications close tomorrow night, and unless an unexpected number come in at the last minute there is no prospect of a cut in the allotment...
...evening disclosed a Crimson squad perfectly conditioned and near the top of its potential form. It offered a sharp contrast to the whitewash which the University received last year and to successive relay defeats in every year since the war. Especially does the University showing augur well for for its success against Cornell and Dartmouth on February 16 and in the intercollegiates two weeks later...
...suggestion for improving them deserves consideration, and most especially when it comes from one like President Morgan who has actually experimented with education at Antioch College. President Morgan proposes a six or eight-year course, in which the cultural and professional elements would be blended, instead of the sharp division between these two elements now existing at almost all universities...
...true that the "sharp cleavage between the periods of cultural and professional training causes a professional student to lose all his cultural habits while he concentrates on preparation for the serious business of life"? It is hard to define "cultural habits", but presumably, they are the life-long habits which the College is now supposed to create. If the professional student loses these habits during his severe training, the college has not succeeded; and the remedy for this is not an amalgamation of college and graduate school, but an improvement in college methods...
...opera last season rode advantageously on the happy welcome which greeted the first performance of the work in New York for a long time. But now, with the appetite a little sated, the handicaps of a traveling and of a more or less improvised company were seen with sharp disillusionment. The scenery was poor, but that might have been unnoticed had the musical part of the production been good. The orchestra was less frightful than last season. It was a newly formed State Symphony Orchestra, organized by Mr. Stransky. It is notorious that new orchestras are not good, and this...