Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write to help, not to hinder, in kindness, not in adverse criticism...
...primary purpose of the college. Most important of all the home and home arrangement will diminish, may even destroy, the whole public emphasis now devoted to the University eleven. With two teams of equal strength instead of one there will no longer be any "varsity" for the papers to write about and the public to talk about incessantly for two months every autumn. It will end the Saturday emigrations of the undergraduate body. Furthermore it would seem a logical deduction that two teams playing the same intercollegiate schedule would develop an intramural rivalry which might even outweigh the interest incidental...
...Sherman rather subtly draws for us the smug delight with which two sisters thrust at one another with kindly malice. Farther on, we have a romance of sorority life wherein the benefits of coeducation (absit omen!) are faithfully set down. Now both authors write of love after the college fashion, and accordingly you are bound to recognize some undergraduate friend "be he scholar, be he spark". Consider, for example, the diplomatic telephone call, the battle of wits in the margin of a library book, and there...
...indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
...Quizzer. It is the Quizzer's function to read the questions in clear, loud voice while your friends write down the answers. When all the answers have been written down, the friends exchange papers and the Quizzer reads the correct answers. The Quizzer may be empowered to govern argument and behavior during the game, but at a really good grade party there are separately appointed...