Word: away
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race was started under very favorable conditions. The crews had good water for more than half the course, but at the finish it was choppy. It was not until after a false start, caused by the pistol's missing fire, that the crews finally got away. The University crew, rowing 39 to the minute, went into the lead on the second stroke. Columbia was rowing 38. After securing a slight advantage, Sargent dropped the stroke to about 35, and the University crew passed the quarter-mile mark a third of a length ahead. At this point Columbia was still struggling...
...real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas to expand and develop. We should advise...
...evil. As a reason, it seemed evident that when all interest was devoted to athletics, scholarship should be left out. Undergraduates, however, are coming to realize more and more the close relation between vigorous effort in College and success in after-life. This is the attitude which will do away with any opprobrium...
...adopting the system of the College Entrance Examination Board most of these difficulties would be done away with, and the educational standards of the University would not be lowered. These examinations are broad in scope and amply test the applicant's general knowledge, without requiring the peculiar courses necessary under our present method...
...games which were formerly played, the schedule seems really too short; but the football authorities feel sure that the reduction will be no very serious handicap to the success of the team. There is one less game than last year, and Wednesday games in term-time have been done away with. This last change is a very desirable innovation from the Faculty point of view, as preventing absences from afternoon lectures. The only Wednesday game on the list is the day before the formal opening of College, so that as a matter of fact there are only eight games during...