Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nights hideous by making catcalls and bellowing snatches of what were once songs. It is only charitable and reasonable to suppose that the majority of these offenders are Freshmen. For they make the noise for one of two reasons; either because they wish people in the vicinity to think that they are devil-may-care, hard-drinking fellows, or they are men who really have been indulging beyond the point of sobriety. If they are not Freshmen, in the first case, they ought to know that men do not win instant and lasting popularity or admiration from other...
...much? In other words, is it the business of the College to let him use his time as he pleases, or to cram an education down his throat? This is a difficult question which the CRIMSON is not altogether prepared to answer definitely, but we are inclined to think that the average student would prosper fully as well if a little more knowledge were forced down. This is a question on which we should be glad to hear further discussion...
...Walker, speaking for the Yale News, took as his subject the effects of a college paper on broadening college spirit. With its many good effects, college spirit is nevertheless liable to make the undergraduate think solely of his alma mater, because he either goes to college for study, or else only to make acquaintances. By publishing items of general interest and by keeping in touch with other universities, the Yale News is trying to obviate this disadvantage...
...came to perfect your mental powers, to acquire a vigorous and strong mind, then in order that you may do this, you must begin at the beginning; and in beginning you must learn to discriminate between the things eternal and the things temporary. In the latter you may think I am speaking of journalism, but I am not. The nearest I ever came to journalism was to be asked to be a co-editor of a paper that did not exist. I replied I did not think...
...them above legitimate question. These sports at their best have an immense educational power in every part of education that is not dependent on books or on works of art; but we persistently throw away much of what they offer by pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into...