Word: climax
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although the small number of upper-classmen back may preclude the possibility of inter-class races, there will probably be a winter carnival as usual in February. Competitions and time-trials for all the candidates will be started after Christmas, coming to a climax in the three-day carnival in which both championship and novice events are held...
...Interest in football diverted us from watching the steady, though slow, development. Recovering from early, discouraging defeats the 1921 runners have persevered, with resulting success. The victory over Yale was a convincing proof that the Freshmen had made big strides. They are out to make today's contest the climax of the season...
Today is the climax of our football season: The Harvard and Yale Freshman teams meet in the Stadium. They and not the usual University teams are to represent the Crimson and the Blue. We will miss the old stars: Black, Casey and those others who battled in the Bowl last year all are in the Service and the freshmen are the only ones left to represent their colleges on the gridiron. There will be no H formed in the Stadium, no new songs will be sung; it will be a war time game. We, that is, all but the freshmen...
...better example of the old adage "it never rains but it pours" could be found than the history of the war during the last month. Now, as a climax to this series of defeats and discouragement's, comes the news of the triumph of the Maximalists and the Bolsheviki, the capture of the Winter Palace, and the flight of Kerensky. This is one of the few single events of the war that seems irretrievable, that offers no ray of hope or consolation. Even should Kerensky succeed in rallying the Army to his support and reestablishing a new government in Moscow...
...death of a man who has lived a long and complete life, fulfilling with honor the task he was set to do, has in it something of climax which robs the inevitable end of much of its sorrow. Yet even such consolation may avail little in considering the death of Joseph H. Choate...