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...more of each other's material. This seems unnecessary. The detailed analysis of Chaucer's works, with its inevitably pedantic point of view, is at present as uninteresting to the lecturer as to the handful of students present, from whom he can rarely extract the slightest evidence of vigor. If the course is ever to be satisfactory to any concerned, the distinction between English 1 and Comp. Lit. 42 must be clearly defined, with the former much reduced in size, and by some means exclusive of all those who are merely fulfilling a requirement...
...theses. Phi Beta Kappa, with a conservatism born of long tradition, has until now refused to read the handwriting on the wall. The approval of the new system, while allowing the maintenance in a restricted form of an undergraduate nucleus, may well mean a new birth of life and vigor for the Society as a group of graduate intellectuals...
Playing a beautiful offensive and defensive game, the Varsity basketball team downed Massachusetts Institute of Technology last night on the Engineers' court, 28-20. The Crimson quintet showed new vigor and pep to outplay completely the Engineers throughout the game. At no time did Tech threaten to take the lead from Harvard...
After having frowned upon English universities he finished his education in France and Germany, and then went to Malaya as a rubber planter. There he was defeated by the fever and soon sought new vigor in the Canadian Rockies. Refreshed by his stay in North America, he returned to London where he passed a civil service examination which led to his appointment as his Majesty's vice-consul at Moscow. This was Indeed a minor post in tranquil 1912. Today the author recalls how pleasing Russia was to him with its carefree days when many a morning...
Although many people hailed the latest manifestation of the Watch and Ward Society, as a welcome sign of renewed vigor, those who have followed its course closely must take a different view. It has degenerated sadly from the days when its name struck terror to booksellers who carried the favorite esoteric of the moment in the little safe in the back room. Its decline can be dated from the time when its inordinate 1-st for the purity of letters caused it to descend on the Dunster House Bookstore...