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There are certain times in the year when the Freshman's duty to his class and thus to the College is to turn out and march. Today is one of those times. Class spirit and Kanrich's band should stir every 1916 man to join the parade to Soldiers Field to see the class team meet its deadliest yet worthiest rival in an effort to continue the clean sweep which 1916 teams have so far had over Yale 1916. Track followers announce that the meet will be close, and perhaps whole-hearted support or lack of it will account...
...Glenvil," by Mr. Burlingame, cries for compression, for composition in the painter's sense, the focusing of detail on the central figure and suppression of irrelevancies; "The Cursed of Apo," by Mr. George Seldes, is too unrestrained, too full of shrieks. Tragedies both, they both fail to stir the reader's sympathy possibly because they did not in the first place stir the writer's sufficiently...
...rightly is impossible without faith in God. This may sound like sermonizing, but if ever a sermon brought conviction to the heart of its hearer, this one preached by Mr. Thomas and interpreted in a masterly way by Mr. Mason and his excellent company, should touch the heart and stir the mind also...
...points which they learn from their wards. The finest thing a social service worker can do is to learn one or two of his boys by heart, to have them as true friends, boys to whom he is an idol, and who take from him the ideals which will stir ambition in their souls...
Discussion of important political affairs by undergraduates is well worth while, but taking a straw ballot which will effect absolutely nothing upon a question which cannot possibly become an issue is a waste of time. It is very laudable for the Political Club to be so ambitious to stir up some question of general interest, but it must have forgotten its sense of propriety in presuming to call the present administration of the United States to account. The recasting of the question makes it only slightly less offensive, and does not remove one of the most serious objections to advertising...