Word: tends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tiger supporters are hoping that the Orange and Blue will finish the season close to the top in the intercollegiate ranking. Last season's Freshman team was one of the strongest in a number of years and the addition of these youngsters to the university ranks should tend to revive the Tiger's waning prestige on the track...
...trustees of Columbia University have recently taken an action of very large academic significance in appointing a special committee "to inquire and ascertain whether doctrines which are subversive of, or tend to, the violation or disregard of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of the state of New York, or which tend to encourage a spirit of disloyalty to the Government of the United States, or the principles upon which it is founded, are taught or disseminated by officers of the university." This committee, which is to consist of five members, including the president, will inquire generally...
...quite so pretty as it should be, Mr. Simpson's Imitation of the Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with nine-syllabled verses interspersed. Its workmanship is imperfect, and its lines tend to monotony; yet it is impressive in its dignity. His sonnet "Umbra Naturae" again shows either carelessness or radical doctrine as to versification: it begins with a nine-syllables verse (unless we give two syllables to "here"), and ends with what looks like a rough Alexandrine, but may be a badly...
...sent to the Committee accompanied by a check for the specified amount before January 29. The price of admission will be four dollars for each man and an additional two dollars for each lady. The Committee regrets that the amount has necessarily had to be increased since it may tend to keep a few men from the dance, but it seemed absolutely necessary because of the rise in expenses...
...with the problem which Princeton now is debating. In all of them there are societies and clubs, more or less secret, membership in which is esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial. But the trouble is that these clubs tend to take a place of overshadowing importance in the student mind, and that in the nature of the situation many worthy men must fail of election to them. The problem is not merely a student problem. It is the expression of an inherent human tendency. Maroon a hundred persons...