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...guard stated that students as a whole are about as honest as the test of the 50,000 people that pass through the station each day. "If they haven't the necessary ten cents they generally manage to borrow it from, some friend," he said...
...prominent man recently said: "Most people live their lives and die without ever knowing what they are really capable of doing. They never learn, because they never put themselves to the test." Sophomores, verbum sapienti satis est! The first hundred years are the hardest. The work will be explained tonight at seven o'clock at the Crimson building. Down goes the gauntlet...
Explaining his suggestion, Professor Root said: "At the end of each term would hold a three-hour test consisting of three of the most frightful puzzles ever invented. The possibilities are equally great for the classics or history departments. Imagine a cross-word puzzle made up entirely of Latin words. Cross-word puzzles consisting of biological or chemical terms could also be used. In that way the perpetually bored student could find interest in his work...
...program is as follows: 1. "Dixie" Piano 2. "Mammy's Memories of Christmas in the Old Plantation" Miss Williams "Georgia Sunbeams" Miss Williams 3. "Old Black Joe" Audience 4. Silhouettes of Dixie: "A Mississippi Test of Love" "The Old Virginia Reel" (Banjo accompaniment) Miss Williams 5. "Way Down on the Suanee River" Audience 6. "Old Wash Up fer Moonshine" "The Haunted House. . (Negro ghost story) Miss Williams 7. "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" Audience 8. Cabin Folk Songs of Dixie (collected from life): "A Cottonfield Serenade" "Down in de Valley" "Sis Patsy" Miss Williams 9. My Old Kentucky Home...
...movement which teaches people to think, and gives them something to think about, cannot help but be of some use. Bizarre ideas and titles, while they are good advertising, are always modified under working conditions. And if the new school meets its great test, that of controlling the energy of youth as expressed by 10,000 murders a year, who will gainsay its merit...