Word: classics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...destined to endure amid stress and storm for two decades. The rules there adopted, although annually amended and extended, are nevertheless basically the rules that regulate play today, and the three great series of football contests thus founded--Harvard-Princeton, Princeton-Yale, and Harvard-Yale--today are the classic centres around which a hundred others thrive...
Rain, for the second time this week, kept practice for the University eleven comparatively light yesterday. Although Coach Fisher has no intention of submitting his first-string men to the possibility of injury before the annual classic with Yale, yet the drill so far has consisted of little more than signal practice...
...preface to the annual late season classic, the Army and Navy games with Notre Dame and Georgetown respectively are attracting considerable interest. Both teams as yet have had no serious tests and the results of these contests will in a measure, indicate their strength...
...classic in terseness and biting sarcasm is President Lowell's letter to Professor Franz Keibel of the University of Koenigsberg. The latter is answered in a tone which ought to be applied to many more Germans and to the German Government itself; "If you can prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert...
...movement claims for its foundation the following facts: first, the teaching profession is notoriously underpaid. The life of the late Carleton Parker offers a classic example of the way an adequate salary will increase the productivity of a teacher. Second, the wretchedly weak administration of Boards of Education render good pedagogy almost impossible. However this concerns primarily the public school system and does not touch Harvard...