Word: things
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rather be caught, at twenty, lifting a bronze tablet out of Brooks House, than clamoring in the College papers for harsher punishment for a fellow student. The former offense is evidence of profound indiscretion, but is not inconsistent with honor or the noblest qualities. It shows misapprehension of some things, but not necessarily a corrupted character. Is punishment in itself a thing to be desired? I never heard...
...community at large, there ought not to be more than one opinion on the question whether a game, played under the actual conditions of football, and with the barbaric ethics of warfare, can be a useful element in the training of young men for such high service. The essential thing for university youth to learn is the difference between practising generously a liberal art and driving a trade or winning a fight, no matter how. Civilization has long been in possession of much higher ethics than those of war, and experience has abundantly proved that the highest efficiency for service...
...membership of the Union is certainly much lower than it should be, and this can only point to one thing: namely, that there is not enough interest in the Union to draw people to it. There are many small interest but no one big event or interest which appeals to the College as a whole. Now why would not a Union dance supply this want? The Living Room is an ideal place to hold such an occasion, as the floor is good and there is plenty of room. The College could give the dance alone or each class could give...
...public taste. It even has a Christmas story, Mr. Hagedorn's "The Pastor of Wenkendorf," which is agreeable, climactic and might well appear in the Saturday Evening Post. The old Advocate had little satirical verses.--"I am going to the Annex, Sir, she said," and that sort of thing,--the new Advocate includes a little idyl, "The Maid and the Shepherd Boy," by Mr. Gebhardt. The old Advocate had a clever "Proctoure's Tale," quite in the vein of Chaucer,--the new Advocate has "The Little Show Girl," by Mr. Cooper, a sincere and truthful sketch of a boy from...
...Another thing which seems to be brought out by the election is that the true sentiment of the class is thoroughly opposed to the unsavory ward politics of which we have had such an overdose. A CONVARTED PETITIONER...