Word: brights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...column, which appears in a well-known Boston newspaper, the "Bright Sayings of Children" are often printed for the amusement of their elders. Any parent may earn a dollar by submitting to the editor of this column a "cute" remark which his, or her, off-spring has perpetrated. One infantile query is the following: "Mother, if there are seven hundred jars of jam in the house, why can't I have one of them"? A pertinent question. The undergraduate, in search of the sweets of knowledge, might ask the same: "If there are a million and a half books...
...outlook for Freshman debating is especially bright this year. Practically all the Freshman candidates showed great promise, and a team is shortly to be organized, entirely apart from the team in the interclass debate. This team will have a Fall debate, in all probability with Bowdoin College, and a triangular Spring debate with Yale and Princeton...
...unflinching love of truth, its courage in duty, and its continuous aspiration to reach out for the best in both thought and character. There is a great tradition which belongs to every son of Harvard. It is good to help in any smallest way to keep that tradition bright for those who shall come after...
...prospects for an intercollegiate team this fall are very bright, with several of last year's letter-men and the major part of the 1925 Freshman team on hand. The forward line is especially strong, with Captain R. W. Heizer '23, Corlise Lamont '24, J. M. Begg '24, A. J. Byington '24, Harry Eldridge '24, J. F. Mersereau '25, and W. B. Pringle Jr. '25, all leading contenders for positions. R. M. C. Greenidge '24, H. L. Hartley '23, John Pallo '23, W. N. Tuttle '24, and F. C. Wale '25 are the outstanding back field candidates. About...
...house of our next door neighbor, Mars, only a fraction of a light year away, is tenanted, is still unsettled; and now we are given a whole new system to play with, a system 15,000 light years in diameter, with hundreds of suns ten thousand times as bright as ours, and a free-for-all guessing contest as to the number of planets, invisible to us, encircling each...