Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athletic Committee has voted not to give the track team a training table on the grounds that it is a team of individuals, and does not work as a unit. No clearer step could be taken to convince followers of track athletics that the Committee are either unfamiliar with the ground on which they travel; or are unwilling to support track with the same spirit with which they support baseball and crew...
...morning in another column, from the Dodecanesian Students' Council asking for the University's support in re-establishing Greek claims to certain islands now held by Italy, gives a touching indication of the confidence which exists between students in countries widely separated. It is difficult for American university men, unfamiliar as they are with any form of external oppression, to appreciate fully the part that their brothers-in-learning across the sea, play in securing freedom for many an oppressed fatherland...
These few years allow them to determine their tastes and to direct their forces so that when they do step' into the active world no time need be lost in adjustment. However, this very seclusion renders the collage graduated unfamiliar with that very important element of competition. The ability to compete seems to be one of the cardinal rules of getting...
...more see the Seniors flitting from class to class attired in flowing black robes and balancing awkward square caps on their heads. For its final six weeks of undergraduate existence, 1919 will for the first and last time assume a scholarly aspect. The sedate Seniors will stumble along in unfamiliar skirts, to the detriment of their own good humor, until they receive the coveted sheepskin. Thus will one of our oldest traditions be continued...
...unfamiliar viewpoint. Our common attitude is to deplore the evils war has brought and to hope that some compensating good may be found when it has run its course...