Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While it may be true that a few men who loaf through College are able to settle down and achieve brilliant distinction in the Law School, the inference from the Herald editorial that such is the usual course of events among students coming from certain boarding schools does not appear to us necessarily to follow from the facts. It would be equally logical to deduce that since only one in thirteen of the public school men received honor grades in the Law School while one in six received them in College, therefore, public school men who had distinguished themselves...
Today is the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Professor Palmer. On such an occasion the men who have worked at his side for a large part of his forty-two years of brilliant and untiring devotion to Harvard's ideals are the men best qualified to speak. It is, therefore, with a feeling of true delight that we are able to print this morning several appreciations from the men who have been most intimately connected with a life full of noble action and high thought...
Professor Shorey is pre-eminently the most brilliant of the American Hellenists of his generation. He is a profound student of Plato and has written several remarkable books, among others "On Plato's Theory of Ideas," "The Idea of Good in Plato's Republic," and "The Unity of Plato's Thought...
...committee on baseball, and the following resolution was passed: That organized cheering in itself is not bad, but certain phases of it as practiced today are prejudicial to the best interests of the University as a whole. That cheering before and after the game, between the innings, and after brilliant plays is only the natural expression of undergraduate spirit and does a great deal to increase the interest of the occasion, but such expressions should not take the form of an ungentlemanly attitude toward opponents. The Council feels that the cheer leaders can do a great deal toward controlling...
...another point which Professor Copeland mentioned is not so evident. Having chosen his few interests, and having divided his sixteen hours of the day, how often will the sometimes brilliant scholar and prominent man overstrain and find too late that he is doing too much! Professor Copeland hit the nail on the head when he uttered a warning to this small class of men. The pride of the college in that they are the "all-around" men, well balanced, often brilliant both in studies and "outside interests", they bear the burdens which the less energetic do not care to assume...