Word: best
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...occurred to him that teachers are notoriously the poorest paid professional men, that while the cost of living has soared, with a consequent increase of wages in all other branches of activity, instructors are now living on the same pay they received years ago? A man cannot do his best when he is constantly required to work overtime and outside of his regular duties in order to make both ends meet. Our correspondent's theories are delightful but scarcely convincing. It is at least novel to see an undergraduate demanding "personal sacrifice" from his instructors...
...doubt if any coach has said "this squad is too large." There is need for large squads to insure competition and interest in a team. It is reasonable to have the best men receive the best training, for we never want to see the University represented by anything but the best. The ones who fail to make the first squad are formed into groups and given opportunities to play against teams of equivalent ability. A large squad is a great advantage to any team, as it insures competition and interest to all concerned...
Besides the regular Yale and Princeton games we are glad to note the presence of so many New England colleges on the schedule. Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, and Brown will be capable of giving a stiff fight to the best nine the University can put on the field. Probably the most interesting opponent will be the Havana University team. This is the first time a Cuban nine has visited Cambridge in many years, if ever. The inclusion of a foreign game will lend much interest to the team and its record...
...best exhibition of wrestling was Mead's throwing of E. V. Parsonnet...
...policy of the Harvard Magazine as stated, is "to publish the best in Harvard and Radcliffe." Such a prospectus is comprehensive, pretentious, and difficult of fulfillment, but shows the sort of boundless ambition that deserves laudation. Certainly their opportunity is golden, their well advertised inauguration propitious, but it remains to be seen if they can bring back the breath of life to the stagnant literary life of the undergraduate and lift again the torch dropped from the grasp of the dying Monthly...