Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale has a light, but powerful crew, well-coached and at present rowing a stroke of about 30 to 32 in their time trials. Whether they can raise this and still keep their form with its long reach is yet to be seen. The men are in good condition, and will enter Monday upon the final stages of preparation for the race Friday afternoon. The Yale freshman crew at Gales Ferry is very powerful, but looks for a stiff race with Harvard 1916, as this crew is considered one of the strongest Freshman eights in recent years...
...professor or assistant professor of Harvard University whether or not he has been connected therewith for the full period of one academic year...
...least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities. It seems as if the undergraduate must be brought to know the pleasure of study itself, the actual exhilaration of intellectual "from." the sense of strength to be got from sound thinking. And it seems as if the best method of introducing...
...Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...
About the verse in general little need be said except that it is distinctly undergraduate work. The sonnet "To a Sea Gull," by Mr. Thayer, voices a graceful enough conceit; whether he is at sea or on land one is not quite sure, but one gets a true though faint breath of poetry and forgets defects...