Word: tends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...connection with a recent issue of that publication, cannot but approve the general idea of he Faculty's censoring that class of college magazine. College comic papers must be "cabined, cribbed, confined"; they must be bridled and bitted; they must be curbed, carped (obs.) and castigated; otherwise they tend to bubble over. The CRIMSON approves the Cornell policy heartily and looks with glee to the day when it will have a local application...
...cent., are Harvard graduates. This has, indeed, been a quick recovery and we hope that it will prove permanent. Harvard graduates in the Law School evidently took to heart the criticism which they received. And the elections this year are the more gratifying because they tend to indicate that the sudden deterioration was merely a temporary lapse of ability or application...
...word-storm, seriously impair the value of the article "Wagner--After the Noise of Battle," by H. K. Moderwell '12. For example, if anyone of the ancient objections to Wagner's voiceparts. has been amply refuted by the experience of the last forty years, it is that they "tend to tear his singers to pieces," as the author of this article affirms. It has, on the contrary, been observed again and again that the only singers whose voices have been seriously injured by singing the more heroic Wagner roles, have been those who have either not known how to sing...
...proposed measure brings new difficulties and dangers. It will interfere with the business of the Cabinet by taking the men from the duties which they are intended to perform, and will tend very definitely to change its personnel for the worse, making the Cabinet a body of political leaders. It will interfere with the business of Congress...
...change means that Harvard has now two plans of admission, both of which, by lessening the necessity of special preparation to pass Harvard examinations and by laying greater stress on the pupil's everyday school record, tend to open the University to larger numbers of students...