Word: aging
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...here it has been the custom to have at least a majority of players from the critic's own college. It is all so much wasted effort. Those who could do the best job keep quiet; conditions of the past have changed and the authorities of a dozen years age are no longer unquestioned. Football this year demonstrated more clearly than even that it is a game of team-play. All America teams are a splendid occupation for a rainy afternoon, and would even be a good foundation for a Ladies Home Journal literary competition, but as a matter...
...ability to write the English language well which it is the duty of the college to cultivate. There are steps in the teaching of English as important, if not as clearly defined, as in Mathematics, and part of the steps can only be taken by minds of college age. Yet to all intents and purposes, only men who have received B or above in English A may study English Composition during their second year in college. Only those who least need the training may secure...
...ever-to-be-repeated lessons of unselfish devotion to high artistic ideals, and of Stern self-criticism, as indispensable to the achievement of anything of enduring value, are worked up in an agreeably fanciful manner. But where did "Rodney" get his idea that in the age of Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists--men were "unsophisticated...
Some time ago we said in this column that of all undergraduate honors the only one that grows greater with age is election to Phi Beta Kappa. That is why we congratulate the men who have been awarded that honor. They have won recognition in that for which a university stands. Now they must strive to maintain the standards set for them by Emerson, Holmes, Everett and the long line of earlier scholars of Harvard Phi Beta Kappa. The voice of respect with which these names are spoken indicates the honor in which the men are held...
HARVARD. NameClass Pos. Age. Ht. Wt. Prep. School H. R. Amory, '14 f.b. 21 5.11 173 St. George's H. M. Atkinson, '15 c. 20 5.6 161 Groton G. Bettle, '14 f.b. 23 5.7 166 St. Mark's J. L. Bigelow, '16 c. 19 6.0 170 Hoosac F. J. Bradlee '15 h.b. 20 5.11 176 St. Mark's C. E. Brickley, '15 f.b. 21 5.9 1-2 186 Exeter T. J. Coolidge, '15 e. 20 5.11 168 St. Mark's R. R. Cowen, '16 g. 21 5.11 193 Camb. Latin L. Curtis, '16 e. 20 6.1 173 Groton...