Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that saps their energy and threatens their destruction. If numerical circulation may be taken as a criterion of a paper's success, these undergraduate papers come very nearly being failures. As for general interest in their welfare and in their contents, little can be said. It is the usual thing for the review of a number to arouse more enthusiasm because of its clever criticism and subtle shafts than the number reviewed...
...decision of managership competitions, the CRIMSON ventures to offer a suggestion as a further effort to improve the standard of these contests. At present there exists much nebulosity as to the requirements and conduct of managership competitions; and, as for uniformity among those of the major sports, such a thing is practically unknown. It seems quite logical that the various managers should meet and work out a definite, general plan for their respective competitions, and state as accurately as possible the amount of time required, the duration of the competition, and the nature of the work. The chief...
...University Forum to be held this evening in the Union should be exceedingly well attended, for the questions to be discussed concern the entire student body. As remarked by President Lowell in his recent report, the thing most needed under our athletic system is regular and healthy exercise for the mass of students. Nobody knows better than the students themselves what is necessary to encourage them to indulge in necessary athletic recreation, and the discussion this evening should call forth some interesting proposals as to the means to accomplish this. Another question that has been before the College community...
...graduate or professional school, the number of men available for these teams is smaller than the public supposes. As to the enormous outlay on teams, I am not sure that it has increased the chance of victory, and I am sure that it has damaged some players. In certain things related to athletic games the College should spare no expense; for example, she should studiously and at any cost reduce the danger to life and limb. On the other hand, the College should not watch her athletics with that kind of care which leads them to think their nervous systems...
...Tagore began his lecture with a quotation from the Upanished or Scriptures, "Man becomes truly a man if in this life he can apprehend God; if not, it is the greatest calamity for him." The infinite is not a concrete thing which man can acquire and add to his possessions; he can never find Brahma, for Brahma himself is everywhere; what he must do is to free himself from the confinement of the life of the self and by daily worship seek not to acquire God but to surrender himself...