Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decided as soon as possible by Prof. R. B. Merriman in conference with Yale and Princeton. Prof. C. N. Greenough recently appointed chairman will remain on the committee in the place of Prof. Dunham Jackson, who is engaged in war work in Washington and will not be back in Cambridge before fall...
...three of last year's Freshman team are back in College. C. B. Butterfield and A. B. Blair, both heavy hitters will be valuable material for the University team. T. J. Meehan's clever work in the infield which was a feature of 1921's team, will also be a strong factor this year...
...arriving at the end of their college days, how many men have found themselves lonely, unknown to their classmates! How many, in looking back over their college career, have recognized their mistakes too late. General Johnston once exclaimed, when he had missed a train, "I ran fast enough but I didn't start soon enough...
...capable sudents the advantages that they deserve. American universities offer too few of such advantages, far fewer than most European universities. Is it not right for an institution with the age and prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...
Deplorable indifference seems to be the attitude most common toward class elections this year. The uncertain number of Seniors back in the University makes an exact comparison of voting and non-voting percentages impossible, but in the balloting of last week the non-participating members of the Class were far too numerous. Following in the footsteps of the Senior election, the Junior and Sophomore classes, especially the former, have paid small attention to the nomination of candidates by petition. From these criteria, the three elections today are apt to be very unsatisfactory to both the nominees and to the classes...