Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brown Union is to bring into closer touch than would otherwise be possible all Brown men,--undergraduates, faculty, and alumni. It is managed by undergraduate officers and committees, together with a graduate secretary and graduate board, and its policies are shaped with the purpose of effecting a better and stronger Brown spirit. Membership is open to all past and present members of the university. Practically eight-five per cent, of the undergraduates and a large number of alumni, both in Providence and out of the city, are members. Membership in the Union for undergraduates and active membership for graduates...
...Christmas Advocate has the spirit of the season. A pleasant editorial on the Spugs, counsels us to combine usefulness and beauty in our gifts, and the stories touch in one way on another on the meaning of the time...
...think, his third lamentation over the deplorable condition of American fiction. In spite of his iteration, the reviewer is not convinced that American novels are as bad as Mr. Seldes believes, nor is he much enlightened by such a paradox as this: "They offer vividness, interest, lightness of touch, superficial interest; What perverse tenth muse broods over them, then, that they result only in stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer of literary matters, with a pronounced...
...would be to make football a nearly winter sport. But, more than that the CRIMSON believes that any lengthening of the football season would be bad from the point of view of the players and of the College, which suffers enough, as it is, from the football mania. A touch of the mania, such as we have now, is splendid counter-irritant, but it could easily become a dangerous disease in itself. We hope that this agitation will end, like most of its kind, in nothing...
...class secretary is the officer, upon whom the class will largely depend for coherence, enthusiasm, and direction during its career after graduation. The office is no sinecure. It should be filled by a person who keeps constantly in touch with his classmates; he should know how to collect and edit news for the Class Reports, which means that he should have experience in the details of printing and proof-reading; his acquaintance should be as wide as the class, not limited by the interested of any set, club, or clique...