Word: pretend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON believes that the least beneficial form of this written work is the weekly conference paper, used in many of the larger courses. It cannot pretend to be an adequate test of the student's knowledge from its short length, and in many courses it is never considered seriously by the members of the class. If oral questioning were substituted, a great deal of good would be done. The preparation for the lecture would have to be more thorough, there could be no unfairness, and the men could not help getting more out of the courses than they...
...spring we see the spontaneous applause of the earlier part of the season change into concerted cheering under the direction of numerous cheer-leaders, who drag the last breaths from the supporters of the team in a frenzied endeavor to help bring about a victory. However righteous we may pretend to be it cannot be denied that this cheering is calculated to unnerve the opposing nine as much as it is to support the university team. In the seventh inning when the score is very close, the applause at an error of the visitors is almost as great...
...genially frank in respect to its literary shortcomings is the current number of the Advocate that criticism is disarmed. The few stories and verses do not pretend to be more than they are, --casual productions of a wholesome undergraduate life. And this is a relief. Self-consciousness, and straining for effect, are far too prominently characteristic of undergraduate compositions...
...them in contact with the men with whom their life work is to be done. Incidentally the summer work will be useful in accustoming every student to the rough work and routine through which, if at all, his university training may enable him to rise. The School does not pretend to graduate men who will begin at the top or high up in their several lines of business. It does aim to teach, them how to work and how to apply powers of observation, analysis, and invention to practical business problems...
...knowledge, he explained, is the direct cause of localization of thought. The indifference of minds, completely absorbed in the abnormal provincialism of their own opinions is as likely to do harm as good in its charity. Such an attitude is a contradiction to the Christ in whom we pretend to believe. And the sectarian religious hatred which may follow from this is the most ugly ghost in human history...