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...into more or less of a sprint and would be more detrimental physically than the longer course. In all racing it is the pace and not the distance that kills. In addition, the last mile of the four-mile race is often the most exciting and is the greatest proof of superiority between rival crews...
...cheering in the Arena thus far has always been unorganized, and often uninspiring. Partly due to the haphazard allotment of seats, and partly to the lack of leadership, the students have not come forth with substantial proof of support. It is devoutly to be wished that tonight, when two teams meet very evenly matched, this defective backing may not be in evidence. If the contest is to be won, it looks as though victory were partly up to the University, and not alone to the team...
...should be sufficient proof that beer is desired when not a drop remains at the end of the smokers. Have those who prefer beer ever objected to the serving of ginger ale or sarsaparilla? Yet there are some who detest both these drinks even as greatly as some detest beer...
Glancing back over the lights and shadows of 1914, the undergraduate may regret deeds he has done or left undone. By the calendar he has written the record of those twelve months (and it is too late to "correct proof"); but in his scholastic endeavors the undergraduate still has time to accomplish something in the college term. If the Christmas vacation passed quickly, the few weeks remaining between now and January twenty-eighth will fly. Not by trying to prolong the Yuletide festivities, but by shedding the holiday spirit for a more diligent resume of the regular schedule of studies...
...unimportant misprints are excusable in a periodical produced under the difficulties due to the distance between writer and printer. Proof-reading of English is not always as easy for foreign students in America as for most of us. At the end of the first sentence in Section III of Professor Royce's article, for instance, "experienced" must be for "expressed," that is,--"set forth in writing." Professor Royce has experienced the truth that tolerance and loyalty are of the same great motives, but here he is referring to the fact that he has stated that truth as a doctrine...