Word: byword
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...operation is the byword of a successful business venture; without it the best of projects will fail. So it is with success in football. An enthusiastic cheering section, well drilled in their songs and cheers, is of tremendous value to a team; indifference in the stands leads to defeat on the field. Our co-operation this year has been most lamentable. Ignorance of the songs and cheers, together with that all-too-evident Harvard indifference, is the foundation of our early-season faults. Thursday is the night to learn the songs and cheers. The Union must be crowded...
...criticism. The opening article of the issue treats with a sane discrimination, "The Spring Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club." It is said that there will be no dramatic criticism worthy of the name in America until we have a drama equally worthy. It has become a byword that the dramatic-courses at Cambridge are accomplishing one of these ends; and this piece of criticism signed "C. B." is an encouraging token that the critical faculty is finding its development side by side with the creative. Later in the number Richard Dana Skinner writes of "Les Fauves" with refreshing intelligence...