Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Dean Hanford, pointing out that next year the College will be completely reorganized with the advent of the completed House Plan, urged the appointment of a committee to study the numerous problems of, the Freshman year which will necessarily confront the College when the year 1931-32 begins. Following his comment, four committees including that suggested by Dean Hanford, were appointed by the president of the Council, Vernon Munroe Jr. '31. Selection of these groups and discussion of their duties formed the chief part of the evening's business...
...president also appointed a Committee for the investigation of the Freshman year. It will be the duty of this group to study the problems which will face the new men when they are finally living in the Yard, in addition to those which still confront University authorities. This committee is composed of J. A. Blanchard '31, chairman, J.B. Ames '32, E. L. Belisle '31, T.W. Dunn '31, Marshall Stearns '31, W.B. Wood, Jr. '32, and J. MacG Byrne...
...test matches that Long Islanders mean when, after lunch, they suggest "going over to see the polo." The actual team this year will not be picked until the night before the first game, but the men on it will be chosen from the "Red" and "White" teams which confront each other as tentative units, constantly rearranged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., captain of the U. S. team and chairman of the Defense Committee, had made clear that he would not consider anyone as trying out for a specific position. His purpose in the test matches was to arrive at combinations that worked...
...trail. He finds him ... a gold mine (the great lode of Mother Mountain!) is discovered . . . there is not enough water for two . . . another murder. In the sheriff's office at Red Butte, Pierre, given up for dead (no man could get through Skeleton Sink alive) stumbles in to confront the sheriff, Ann and old Tony. He dies with a nobly false self-accusation hissing through his parched lips...
...John Stuart Mill. For a man in college to cover such a list means to know what some of the keenest minds of the world have thought about the relations between a state and its citizens, and thus to pave the way for intelligent opinions upon the problems that confront his own generation...