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Certainly that is true, especially among the first class mentioned. He would be very rash who would suppose that a man could attain to a professorship in a university of repute without having shown some capacity for original thought. But with the student this does not necessarily hold. There are innumerable instances to prove that a man may pass admission examinations to college without having ever experienced the sensation of having a thought of his own; he can buy the thoughts he needs at so much per hour. And there are only fewer instances to prove that he can also...
...Richard Ordynski will have general charge of the production and will conduct the rehearsals. The play will, therefore, attain a distinction unusual in such presentations, for Dr. Ordynski is a stage director of international reputation and was associated with Max Reinhardt in the revival of this same play-and of the other "chronicle-histories" of Shakespere in Germany some years ago. He will also be remembered by members of the University for his successful producing of the Dramatic Club's plays last spring...
...Student Battalion is to attain the full regimental complement of twelve hundred men, it is imperative that every man who provisionally signed up be present and enlist definitely at the mass meeting today. The best immediate proof that Harvard can give of its patriotism will be twelve hundred men in uniform, and the possibility of this proof being given depends upon the willingness of the individual to make sacrifices...
...fully than those who have been to Plattsburg how much training is required to make an efficient army officer, and what slight progress can be made through the medium of the Battalion under consideration. Nor does the average man of no such experience as that of Plattsburg expect to attain to any large degree of military preparedness in the necessarily limited time which can be given to the drill and instruction of the large group of men now signed up. In fact I am convinced that for many of us the actual military knowledge which we expect to acquire...
...majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...