Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...situation in baseball is clear. On Tuesday the University team's game against Yale was in every way the equal of its best performance of the season. Although past experience with Yale has taught Harvard that "he who laughs last, laughs best", the ability of the University team to hit consistently, and its mastery of the fine points of baseball give grounds for the hope that this year a third game will not be necessary...
...discussion of the Honor System is clear and direct; but the most striking thing in the discussion is that the advocates of the new scheme are men indirectly connected with Harvard or else are teachers whose instruction is "primarily for graduates," while the upholders of the present proctorial system are men dealing directly with Harvard undergraduates or else are undergraduates themselves. F. Ayer, Jr., '11, and R. C. Benchley '12 present what is probably more nearly the prevalent undergraduate view of the matter than that recently given in the CRIMSON. It is to be noted also that the opinions...
...feeling. A critic who calls Henley a "Luther of English Poetdom" has invalidated even the sanest statements which follow. Nothing is to be gamed by proclaiming a lovable minor bard as the valiant champion in a poetic reformation. The study of "H. G. Wells and the Socialist Aristocracy" is clear, concise, and in all respects convincing, if only we assume--like the writer--that the peculiar brand of socialism which Wells has adopted for literary purposes is really to be reckoned with as propaganda. Wells's "New Machiavelli," which Mr. Henderson is using for his text in this study, seems...
...eminent statesman, and an eloquent public speaker. He was also "the Senator with a conscience." He was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and his influence upon the acts of the great President was seen most strikingly in Lincoln's Edict of Emancipation in 1862 and his clear and strong reference to the sin of American slavery in his Inaugural Address...
...College Office, and a sympathy between the men and the Faculty, which does not now exist, would spring up. A step in the right direction was taken by the appointment of a Freshman dean, and it is to be hoped that before long the Faculty will see its way clear to the establishment of three more assistant deans...