Word: credited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...making the choice, several considerations besides an aggregate of high grades receive attention. For example, a man who has taken principally easy courses, or a man whose work has fallen off from year to year, may not win election, when another man with less A's to his credit may be elected because he has shown ability in difficult courses and has constantly improved. The narrow specialist, and the man who has not specialized at all are equally apt to fail of election. Moreover, the electors take into account success in winning prizes for essays, in debating, and in other...
...team which defeated Yale on Saturday certainly deserves all possible credit and praise. It emphatically proved the fallacy of the statement one hears occasionally to the effect that a Harvard team cannot win an uphill game. It is work of this sort that attracts the support of the undergraduates to a team. A continuation of hockey teams such as this year's should make hockey a major sport before many years are passed...
...instance, it is greatly to the credit of any nation, of any government, when it performs some vast undertaking which will last for many centuries and which adds perceptibly to the sum of achievements of mankind. Such an undertaking is the Panama Canal. Last spring, when in Europe, I was struck by the fact that every statesman I met deemed two acts of the American people during the past decade pre-eminently worth noting; these two being the voyage of the battle fleet round the world and the business-like efficiency with which we were doing the work...
...others will have much to do with the success of Class Day. In the election of these officers it is not personal friendship or acquaintance that should form the criterion of choice between nominees. The men who deserve election are those who have acquitted with credit the responsibilities they have shouldered, and those who have shown the most enduring as well as the keenest interest in the welfare of the class. In order to insure the choice of real leaders, around whom the class can rally to a man, everybody should vote. If these principles are followed, Class Day cannot...
According to a second system by which the universities are given credit in proportion to the prominence, not merely according to the number of their scientists, another table has been compiled. In this calculation, truly pre-eminent scholars count for a greater number of points than their colleagues of lesser achievement...