Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their classes, attend the monthly meetings of the directors at the Cooperative Society and make any suggestions that in their opinion will enable the Society to increase its service to undergraduates. Undergraduates can express their wishes, criticisms, or suggestions through them. Stout and Lage are both members of the Student Council the former being managing editor of the CRIMSON and the latter assistant football manager. Gade was on the 1931 football manager. Gade was on the 1931 football team, president of his Freshman Instrumental Clubs, an editor of the 1931 Red Book, and 1931 Polo manager...
...petition is granted it will mean that construction will begin within two or three months. Beck Hall will be torn down at that time, notwithstanding the present student residents. G. P. Davis '14, trustee of the property, stated, however, that arrangements would be made for the protection of those who are now living there...
...follower of the trend of college journalism in the last few years must admit the justice of President Hopkins' statement. The cry of undergraduate editorials and essays has been almost invariably for more ingenious systems, for more inspirational teaching; rarely has a suggestion been offered as to how the student might improve himself or contribute, except through criticism, to the improvement of his college. But it is more than doubtful if editors and other writers' are alone at fault in this respect. The ordinary undergraduate mind, if it considers education at all, is no less insistent that more and more...
...prominent New York financier is purported to have advised the son of one of his partners, who sought advice on college electives, to choose first subjects which were hard and to choose second subjects which were interesting. Compare this attitude with that of the great mass of college student. Through their spokesmen, the undergraduate editors, they are constantly demanding that education be made easier and more attractive. Their most earnest quest is for a process of such ingenuity and perfection that it will educate them in spite of themselves. The demands of the undergraduate critic may uncover certain remediable defects...
This weakness lies far more in attitude than in capability. Every college student is familiar with the question: "Well, what do you do in college besides manage the hockey team?" The usual answer is no less illuminating than the question itself. The young man, flattered by the tribute to his executive ability, elaborates on the difficulties of his managerial position and then turns to club activities, theatres, and "brawls". Any reference to the academic will either produce embarrassment or be dismissed with a scornful, "Oh, you don't have to do any work to get through that place...