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...tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...
...different colleges. The only trouble with it, they suggest, is that the game has become a circus. Perhaps, judging from the resolutions they agreed upon, this does justice to their way of thinking: "We're not in college to be grinds: but we are in college, after all, to sharpen our wits and live not entirely on the sporting pages and acquire a sense of proportion about life as we shall probably live it. For the whole fall term, and for part of the rest of the year, football makes us live from Saturday to Saturday in a side-show...
Greta, tortured, repeats, "It cannot be," until the shadows sharpen and the colors burn and they all come together about a table to hear the truth...
HALF-TOLD TALES-Henry van Dyke-Scribners ($1.50). If any man must moralize, let him be full of years and honor, and of a wit quick to sharpen points grown dull through lack of dispute. Dr. van Dyke surely qualifies under all three headings. He abjures Envy...
...Boston and to the CRIMSON. Nothing is a better test of literary ability than the task of criticising a play. The CRIMSON will be the gainer by a number of telling criticisms, the stage by a better knowledge of undergraduate likes, and the student, winner or not, will sharpen his critical power...