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...enough of this. It indicates the conclusion towards which we have been impelled. The fault lies not in ourselves but in the vacations that we must talk...
...perfect in appearance? And how can Williams, with its distinction of being the only college in New England which will graduate a man without requiring a single hour of English study, expect its students to aim at the ideal of pure speech? College and student are both at fault, and if the ability to speak reputably is a vital part of the well-educated man, then correct speech for its own sake must be emphasized in precept by the college, and in practice by the undergraduates. --Williams Record
...complaints, unfortunately, do not stop with the men who were cut to one seat. Most of the fault found, however, by those who receive two seats, is due to the fact that very few of them receive seats on the side of the playing field between the goal lines. Below is a brief outline of the scheme of distribution in accordance with the recommendations of the 1910 committee...
...large institutions the student does not come into close contact with those who are charged with educating him may be true as far as the larger courses are concerned, but little further. If a student does not meet his professor in a non-academic way, it is his own fault. Faculty members set aside particular times to see men, in addition stating that they are always glad to receive anyone at any time when it is possible to arrange it. While there are some who avail themselves of this opportunity, the majority hesitate to cross the threshold of a professor...
...fault was not that of the usher. He had reported to the marshal as soon as the doors were opened, had been immediately assigned to an aisle in the first gallery, and almost before he could hang us his coat had been swamped by a rush of spectators. Then he discovered that the seats were numbered as no seats ever were numbered before. A lightning calculation could not have figured out the location of any one seat; a search was necessary--like that for the needle in a haystack. For example--in the first gallery the seats in sections...