Word: solider
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences which was established in 1872 but which did not come to be a solid part of the University until 1890 shows a slight decrease in the number of students enrolled. There is a total of 603 men in the school this year as compared with 652 last year. This makes a striking contrast with the other departments and with the University itself. They almost all seem to have grown. This loss is probably due to the increase in efficiency of so many graduate schools in the smaller universities throughout the country. One hundred...
Physics, embracing a general college course; mathematics, including one or two questions in algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic and differential calculus; technics, covering the general field of mechanics, industrial arts and processes, and applied chemistry; inorganic chemistry, qualitative analysis and elementary organic; French or German; mechanical drawing...
...cause is inevitably fostered by our college life. Dr. Charles W. Eliot calls it "a preference on the part of both men and women for freedom from care and responsibility, and for passing pleasures rather than solid satisfaction." It cannot be denied that our indolent college life, with its short-cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint...
...long as the line was solid he backfield had time to get the elusive plays in operation. The trouble with Harvard this season was that the line was not strong enough to protect the backfield till it got under way; in consequence the opposing players got through and stripped Harvard's secret plays of all their mystery. . . . . It is a surprising feature of this gridiron season to see the Crimson down to sixth place in the ranking of the teams...
...expected that Yale will win the intercollegiate this year and second place honors seem to be divided between the University and Princeton. Solid gold watch fobs in the form of clay targets are awarded to the members of the winning team, and in addition, Stanley F. Withe '14, secretary of the Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association, will present a sterling silver cup to the winner of the individual championship...