Word: best
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...carpers at Harvard's football schedule this year will have to take a back seat now that the schedules of the spring sports have been published. The talk of "olderdown" games will have to be a relic of the past, for contests have been arranged with some of the best teams of the East, not to speak of long southern trips to Annapolis and Charlottesville for the baseball team, Washington and Norfolk for the tennis team, and matches at Cornell for the crew and the lacrosse team...
...friends, the radicals, are organized and working to the best of their ability; the only sane thing to be done, then, is for the rest of us--stodgy old fools--who still cling to the belief that before you tear down you must be ready to build up once more--to organize as well, and thereby set a few back-fires...
...this purpose $2,000,000 still remained unexpended and the War Council has decided that the best use for this money will be to apply it to the education of the thousands of ex-service men to whom the war has taught the necessity of a complete education, particularly along technical and mechanical lines...
...omission of the Crescents is considered by many as an unwise move because they have always had one of the best sevens in the East, and recruit their players from the schools rather than the colleges. The B. A. A. is the only organization left that gives hockey players not from the universities a chance to develop. Both the B. A. A. and the Harvard Club will be able to put out strong teams this winter and the championship will probably lie between these two. The Y. D. Club unless it changes its rules to allow other than ex-service...
...good act is a beautiful act," says Mr. Whitman in his "Philosophy of Beauty." This is treading on rather dangerous aesthetic ground since the word Beauty is by Definition (thought not by usage) in its own sphere. The point is best described by the difference between connotation and detonation. Does, for instance, the sight of a beautiful limousine make a man feel pious? Mr. Whitman is inclined to substitute attribute for subject. Even so, the writer has known or heard of few men who come out of aesthetic arguments unscathed...