Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceptions of democracy to assume that the privilege of higher education should be restricted to any class defined by the accident of birth or by the fortuitous circumstance of possession of wealth, but there is such a thing as an aristocracy of brains, made up of men intellectually alert and intellectually eager, to whom increasingly the opportunities of higher education ought to be restricted, if democracy is to become a quality product rather than simply a quantity one, and if excellence and effectiveness are to displace the mediocrity towards which democracy has such a tendency to skid...
...rations". A group of men, similar physically and engaged in the same activities, were divided into two classes for a month, half on "reduced rations" and the other half keeping to their usual diet. At the end of the month it was found that the former group were more alert mentally, more active and efficient physically, and possessed more endurance in every way than the others. The one drawback was that these men had no surplus, no energy stored up to resist colds or other diseases...
...Alert Conde Bickfor '24 of Pelham, N. Y.; fredeick August Otto Schwarz '24 of Greenwich, Coon...
...anyone doubts that Harvard students have a flair for hats, let him view the array now spread out in the Crimson office as mementos of a football victory over Yale. When the excitement had died away after the game, the Crimson, alert to the interest of its readers, organized a hat exchange. Many forlorn hats which had become separated from their fathers were thus restored to their homes. Yet now two weeks after the game the orphan hats number nearly thirty. And those who are constantly in and out of Harvard square have no difficulty in recognizing them as Harvard...
...field goals were made by the Elis, and in the first half of the contest Yale threatened the opposing goal four times but lacked the drive necessary to score. Differing little from the tactics used against Bates in the opening game, the Eli play was featured both by the alert defensive work of the line and by a noticeable lack of brilliance on the attack...