Word: timing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thus far proposed and tried out have not been particularly successful; especially have the class meetings and smokers been ineffective. Now there is one conspicuous reason for this, namely, our inability to remember for this, namely, our inability to remember so many strange names presented to us at one time. For most of us it is comparatively easy to remember strange faces, but few of us can associate with those strange faces the proper names. With this distressing fact removed our success in coping with the perplexing problem of "college spirit" would be greatly augmented...
...once and for all. With the whole class lodged under one roof, with a suitable common room for a general meeting place, the members would soon become acquainted, and many friendships would be formed immediately which now take about four years to develop. But it will undoubtedly be some time before this ideal is realized, and another method should be devised for use until that time...
...practice half-mile scratch race, open to candidates for the University and Freshman teams, will be held on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. At the same time tomorrow afternoon there will be a mile race for Freshmen only. These trials contests are under the supervision of Coach Donovan, and all men who are practicing in these events are expected to report without fail...
Opportunities for public work at Washington are greater now than they have been for a long time, but university men have not yet grasped them...
...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...