Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...That policy is to spend every year all available resources. To avoid deficits invariably would mean to aim deliberately at an annual surplus, and to keep sufficient reserves to guarantee that annual surplus. This cautious policy, which is appropriate to an industrial or commercial establishment, the President and Fellows think not to be best in an educational and charitable institution. Accordingly they believe that the University should be conducted as a grow- ing, changing, expanding organization, losing here, but gaining there, and always turning out from year to year the largest immediate product of well trained young...
...together in Sanders or cheer the buildings or march together to Chapel, Class Day becomes a matter between ourselves and we do not say much about it to each other and exceedingly little to anybody else. It makes anyone who has been through it a little angry to think that it was all done or ever will be done to amuse those who had tickets. For that reason we do not believe that the argument that the Stadium would allow us a greater number of spectators will endear itself to those who have any serious regard for Class...
Before the elections of the Senior Class Day officers on Wednesday and Friday every man who casts a vote should think over intelligently the qualifications of the various nominees and bear in mind the nature of the duties they may be called upon to perform. The award of the offices represents a recognition not only of prominence and past achievements in the class and the University but also of the future worth and possibilities of the officers; there is a higher duty than to vote for one's personal friends, and that is to secure for the whole class leaders...
...think most of the undergraduate body will agree that the calls for subscriptions for miscellaneous athletic activities are annoying. One is called upon to subscribe as a matter of class loyalty, college support--or even to help some collector "make" the managership of some team...
...most interesting parts of the present number is an editorial which tells what the editors think the Monthly should be. "The only excuse," they say, "for such a paper is, in our eyes, that it encourages thinking on literary matters." It should aim, moreover, to print only articles which are free from affectation and are in good literary form. None of the articles which I have so briefly mentioned fails to reach this standard. They all show appreciation of literary form; they are agreeably free from affectation; and they encourage thinking, if not always on purely literary matters, at least...