Word: things
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...analogy becomes ineffective--be permitted to hibernate for a week in Stillman, we could take advantage of the miserable weather to stay indoors and fortify our minds against them. We need just a week's fortification. But they wont. So we must make the best of a disagreeable thing, realizing that it is tradition, that a preponderating if not appalling number of men have passed through it before, and that in two weeks and three days, for even the most unfortunate of us, life will be flowing once more in the fulness of its joyous stream...
...Intercollegiate Musical Association, if it develops in practice, will be an excellent thing. It will afford the colleges one more common ground of association; and it will introduce competition, one of the greatest known agencies for rousing effort, into another field of college activity. Further it will stand as an indication that there are serious interests in college beside those of athletics...
...than its rudiments. This fact is recognized by those who administer the elective system, for no student is denied the privilege of changing his field for concentration, unless it is suspected that he is trying to shift from a hard field to an easy one. The system is one thing in theory and becomes another in practice. Even in practice it is not perfectly elastic. For a student who finds that he wishes to concentrate in a field that does not require much work may find himself unable to make the change, because it is suspected that he is looking...
...order to arouse undergraduate interest in momentous outside problems, a thing lamentably lacking among college men, the Speakers' Club plans to hold open meetings after the mid-year examinations for general discussion of outside problems, these meetings to be open to all members of the University. This plan has received the hearty support of the Faculty and the co-operation of this body is assured...
...Committee, it seems to us, has made the wisest solution of the difficulty. And one thing that should not be overlooked is that every year the feeling within each committee against the Union is at the outset probably as strong as that of the class which it represents. Yet the yearly inquiry has always resulted in the same decision. The Committee is not being coerced or bulldozed; it acts as it does because it has a problem to solve with the nature of which the class at large is not conversant...