Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...before yesterday thirty-five men reported for the Freshman hockey team. Yesterday seven men appeared. Is the University to understand that this is a true index of the Freshman spirit? Is it correct to assume that the first cold day will see eighty per cent of the Freshman hockey squad huddled around the Smith, Standish and Gore Hall fire-places...
Yesterday in a communication to the CRIMSON, Professor Ralph Barton Perry criticized Dr. Fosdick's denunciation of compulsory military training in Appleton Chapel on Sunday. In commenting on Dr. Fosdick's sermon, Professor Perry writes: "Pacifism combined with staying at home and playing safe I can understand; but pacifism combined with looking for trouble, with ideals of heroism and chivalry, is to my mind contradictory, confusing, and likely to lead in tragic consequences...
...meet such threats. For my part I see no virtue in expecting America to take the field against the forces of violence and disorder unless one is willing that America should be equipped to take the field. Pacifism combined with staying at home and playing safe I can understand; but pacifism combined with looking for trouble, with ideals of heroism and chivalry, is to my mind contradictory, confusing and likely to lead to tragic consequences. RALPH BARTON PERRY, Professor of Philosophy...
...order that the contestants in the Oliver Morosco Prize Competition who have not had their manuscripts returned to them may understand the delay, Mr. Morosco has made public his intention of producing some of the dramas, which, although not thought worthy of the first prize merit further consideration. Mr. Morosco has asked for a ten-day extension of time in which to re read the plays and communicate with the authors of those which he desires to produce, in the hope that his desire will culminate in contracts for the production of those plays...
Each performance is preceded by a talk on the character and form of the music, which fixes the attention of the students on important points and assists them to understand and appreciate classical works until their tastes and standards become those of intelligent listeners...