Word: words
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preliminary word from Mr. Castle on his investigation of undergraduate English comes to us, strengthening the impression that the English of college men is far from what it should be. Among several suggestions for raising the standard to something near that of English universities one particular fault with the University curriculum is not mentioned...
Last December the CRIMSON published an editorial analysing at some length the question of English composition courses. There are Sophomores who are interested in English composition -- or perhaps only in their own welfare, in which the ability to use the written word clearly and accurately will play no small part. For them, unless they have secured A's or B's in English A, no course is open. Why not permit them to turn to English 22 or 31, as in the old days when one hundred and forty was an average enrollment from the second-year class? A composition...
...which they should base their payment. The committee does not plan and does not wish to receive money under false pretences, but it does expect every man who pledged money for the sake of having an up to date gymnasium connected with the University to live up to his word...
...Speakers' Club, Mr. Thayer's story "Defense de Cracher" possesses distinguishing merit. Here, too, the manner is as modern as the matter. Mr. Thayer tells the story of the tubercular concierge with exactness of tone and economy of material. One is tempted to say that there is not a word too much. The judicious use of such recurring details as the companionable hen and Fraeulein Goldschmidt's "It would not have happened in Germany" give the impression of skill and sureness of touch. Indeed, the author achieves the seemingly impossible in telling the story in the first person and still...
Welcome is the word that sufficient additional Juniors have applied for Senior Dormitory rooms to assure the instalment of electric lights and new washrooms in South Matthews. Perhaps this will convince some of the remaining skeptics. They must make up their minds, by this evening, however, or they will be doomed to a Senior year without the Yard...