Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centers about these, and might be called a defense of bad architecture. Many of the college buildings can be badly criticized from an architectural point of view, but their associations make us overlook this. President Eliot as at last admonition to the students advised them to look forward not backward, outward not inward, but it is not also important to seek inspiration from the past in the buildings of this University...
...back, to look out and not in. Now at the close of my life, I do not know any better advice to give to the graduates of Harvard College or to the undergraduates of Harvard College than that contained in those two phases: 'Look forward and not backward. Look...
...author begins by showing that the advanced races instead of pushing on, are in reality going backward, and that civilization instead of building up the races of men, is steadily dragging them down. His proof of this phenomenon rests on a firm belief that "heredity and not environment is the chief maker of men." We, as a civilized people, preserve the weaker members of our race by medicine, hygiene, and sanitation. Then, in the generations that follow, the offspring of these weaker members is as large as that of the strong; and the weaker characteristics are all passed on, quickly...
...brought with him the so-called Western American or English professional type of rowing. This system's essential feature is the utilization of the powerful leg muscles instead of the weaker back muscles, which were used so much in the old Harvard method of leaning far forward, and backward at the beginning and end of the pull-through...
...matter of a few months, but almost of years. By the close of the fall season, many of the Harvard men were rowing a style which could not be classified. They were beginning to utilize to better advantage their leg power, but the habit of leaning far forward and backward was not easily to be broken...