Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mahan expects to attend the dinner, but King and Gilman have not yet decided whether or not they will be able...
...team was out yesterday for the first time this year, and the track team still waits for dry ground. Likewise the crew has been delayed just about a month in its start from the Cambridge boat houses. On account of the impossible condition of the field, it is doubtful whether the football team will be able to start spring practice before the vacation. If not, spring training will probably have to be cut to a week on account of warm weather. Some critics of Harvard sports say that the seasons are generally too long, and that the men suffer from...
...high brow." It is entirely and frankly unpretentious, and frank unpretentiousness is not invariably a characteristic of undergraduate writing. Also it seldom offends by incorrectness of expression. To be sure, one is obliged to ask himself in reading the review of Mr. Masefield's "Good Friday and Other Poems," whether usage has sanctioned as English idiom the illogical phrase, "centre about"? One must also ask himself what the reviewer of Mr. Conrad's "Within the Tides" means in speaking of the author's "usual superlative style." Apparently the reviewer does not mean, as one might at first think, that...
...other article in this Advocate is so independent and vigorous as Mr. Mansfield's. The others, in fact, suggest something of the evils which will result when individuality is no more. There are three book reviews, conventionally sane and sound, except that a good many readers will question whether "Mr. Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber...
...will be optional with the men as to whether uniform is worn. W. H. WALSH, Sergeant-Major...