Word: even
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although no one was anxious to admit it, the undergraduate body was thoroughly discouraged by the showing of the baseball team against Dartmouth. A train of "loyal rooters" packed the cheering section and yelled vociferously when events on the field justified any noise and frequently when they didn't. Even when the team was nine runs behind, and the rain was pouring down, a not small portion of the cheering section crowded together close to the field and shouted encouragement until the very end. But all their efforts availed nothing...
...more suitable for commissions. That he is right in his assertion that "a college man, because he is a college man, is not thereby given a divine right to become an officer," is undeniable. Naturally all men of any certain type of education can not become first class or even second rate officers, any more than all the undergraduates of a university such as this, may be expected to become engineers of high quality...
Fairness is a good policy even in college journalism. The unnamed editorial writer in the CRIMSON seems to sneer at the bad fortune with which the University debating teams have met. It would be a safe wager that this writer has never attempted to participate in a debate, and he probably did not even attend the debate which brought on his laughable and amusing attempt at a display of immature wit. Does he know how much work a debate entails? Is it any worse to lose a debate than to be defeated in an athletic contest? Would he likewise suggest...
...still it is service. By developing ourselves to the utmost of our capacity, and along lines in which we are best fitted to serve, we are doing our bit toward the development of the nation. The fight to develop the student body is the fight for which colleges exist. Even during the normal reaction from actual war it cannot be lost sight of. It is a fight that no armistice can end and no loan...
...operation in the future. A provision might be made to insure the continuation of similar conferences. A committee from the Student Council might meet annually with the Board of Overseers to represent the undergraduate opinion, when that opinion could be of value; or the scheme might be carried even further so that a representative group of undergraduates might meet on certain occasions with the Faculty...