Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ward '89, C. B. Gulick '90, K. Lake, C. N. Greenough '98, A. N. Holcombe '06, and Mr. W. C. Greene '11, secretary, has "endeavored to secure, through the co-operation of instructors, a greater attention on the part of students to clear and correct English in written work in all subjects. It has also taken steps, in the case of students whose use of English has been unsatisfactory, to help these students to remedy their deficiencies...
...exceptionally keen sense of the ridiculous. The comedy is intensely humorous, and while few would take up the mere loss of a needle as the basis for a five-act comedy, such a loss in 1575 was far from being a trifle. At the time the play was written a steel needle was treasured as few family possessions are today, and when Gammer Gurton lost hers--the only one she possessed--the misfortune took on the importance of a family calamity. How it went and where it went and the disaster that accompanied its going and the search...
...first thing to learn is to skip the headlines, except as a guide as to what the topic is. The headlines of the dailies are often unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading as to the nature of the news underneath. To compare the history of the war as, written in the headlines of certain American newspapers, with the actual course of events would be an amusing, though profitless, occupation. Second, it is impossible to understand the progress of a campaign without a map of the field of operations. Third, it must be remembered that the date and place at the head...
...five are still in preparation. The most important of the former are a set of six volumes on "Papers and Addresses by Elihu Root," edited by Robert Bacon '80 and James Brown Scoot '90. These will consist of his lectures, his addresses, formal and informal, and the state papers written in the performance of his duties as an executive officer of the United States. These latter include his reports as Secretary of War, his instructions as Secretary of State to the American delegates to the Second Hague Peace Conference, and certain of his more important diplomatic notes. It is planned...
Although Yale will have the right now to enter a track and field team in the local championships, a letter written by Captain Oler of the track team to a member of the New York A. C. indicates that this will not be done...