Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revised form, contains certain provisions, especially as to the powers of the Council over undergraduates and undergraduate organizations, of which the college as a whole seems to have been entirely ignorant. Some of these provisions are so out of keeping with the spirit of Harvard government that some comment apon them appears imperative. The late hour last night at which the Council released its new charter made any reprint or comment impossible in today's issue...
...substantial meal of fruit, cereal, toast, and coffee was served for the price of $.35. The informal atmosphere of the breakfast room and the amount of food obtainable for the sum extracted from the break-fasters brought favorable comment from the clientele...
...fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that might have injured a more immediate potency, watched the conflagration with mild attention. He said: "I burned it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity." After this arrogant comment and after the last page of the diary had be come a black and feathery tissue, Sir Basil Zaharoff left Paris for Monte Carlo...
...greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved by the Fascist Government," was the gloating comment, last week, of Il Tevere and other Fascist news organs, when Signor Benito Mussolini caused to be revealed in Rome that a new Italo-Albanian treaty had been signed two days previously in the Albanian capital, Tirana...
Since the death of Walter Camp a traditional splash of football comment for the autumn flies no more. Walter Camp, Yale player and coach, often called "Father of American Football," picked each year an All-American eleven. These were presumed to be the best eleven players in the land and the honor of belonging to the group was limitless. The selections were printed in nearly every important journal in the land; the advertisng value of selecting the official All-American was vast. So vast was it that various publications have since attempted to usurp it. Grantland Rice, widely syndicated sports...