Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be recalled that in Mr. Dooley's classic description of the interview between the college president and the millionaire, who is desirous of entering his son in the college, the president finally turns to the boy and says in effect: "And now what subjects should you like our learned and accomplished professors to study FOR you? Almost any undergraduate of today could safely be trusted to name certain courses which would have been included in that young man's choice of electives, courses which are much sought after, in spite of attempts to check the student's wayward fancies...
...same time, the heavy crew, using the long English stroke, so successful in our past Harvard races, would be benefited through training throughout the whole season for the long distance event, the four-mile New London classic. --Yale Graphic...
...classic of the collegiate season will occur this afternoon when the baseball managers oppose the football managers at 6 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Fordyce and Thayer will officiate on the mound for Manager Kirk's slaves, while Higgins and Sessions, for the long-winded piaskin blowers, will keep the path to first from being worn. The agate polishers are worried at present over a bad gap in their infield. As their third baseman is scheduled to attend the Senior picnic it is feared that third baseman is scheduled to attend the Senior picnic it is feared that third base...
...person who has never taught himself to hunt out, or con over the books of some of the mighty masters of fiction with their galaxy of robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that now they are called classic, then has that individual done his mind and himself a grave injustice. He has denied himself the opportunity to cultivate his mind by the infiltration of rare thoughts, and to harvest the luscious vintage of fine old speech and bottled sunshine from the vineyards of fiction by the world's fine...
Another of his significant contributions to the improvement of precollegiate education was his work as Chairman of the "Committee of Ten" on secondary school studies. The report of this Committee (1893) prepared by president Eliot is an education classic. It immediately received wide recognition, and profoundly influenced the trend of secondary education throughout the country...