Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transcript's editorial reprinted in the CRIMSON of a day or two age presented an interesting speculation regarding the use of humor and of humorous questions in debating. Competitive speaking between colleges happens at present to find itself in a state of metamorphosis of which some aspects are necessarily unlovely and extreme; and it can profit definitely by examining the frank criticism of those who sit in debating audiences or who serve as its official judges...
...time, and plans should be made for reading-room space for all students. Work in the reading rooms is an essential part of the system. Unless all students are able to have continuous access to the reports, encyclopedias, digests, and text books, and learn for themselves how to use a lawyer's tools, much of what it is sought to achieve is left undone. Additional reading-room accomodations for 750 students should be provided...
...richer by one drawing room comedy. But the days of the green carnation have passed and the circle has not yet returned upon itself. So, we find a play which has one mission in the world, to make its auditors turn and say, "Remember that, dear; we'll use it at the Bottomley's tomorrow night." And there are not ten lines which Mr. and Mrs. Playgoer can quote without being suspected of resurrecting Wilde...
...Mandolin Club, unique in being the sole organization of its kind in the country to use only wooden instruments, will play more orchestral music such as the Pizzicati of Delibes and Oanzone Amorosa by Nevin...
...determination of this issue, a clarification of purpose, most patently are required. By all means let American undergraduates be called upon to use their wits and use them abundantly, but if they are to use them in a manner which could not possibly exert practical influence upon any jury, any Legislature, any public assembly or board of directors, let some new name be invented for such lightsome exercise. After all, it is a bit laughable to drag the laws of argumentation into the making only of laughter. Better the smile alone, without implied insult to logic...