Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoulder to shoulder faced the constant menace of hazardous flights over enemy territory and amid a thousand dangers. Their present problem is to convert their fellows to a recognition of their plans to create a college movement to help our national defense, which in the doing will assist to crown college aviation as the Peer of American college sports...
Inasmuch as W. J. Murray Occ. has been granted his degree, he is no longer eligible as an undergraduate member of the Athletic Committee. In his place Wendell Davis '21, captain of the crown has been elected. Thus the undergraduate membership of the committee consists of the hockey, baseball, and crew captains, instead of hockey, football, and baseball...
...place on the team. No stone should be left unturned to insure that the Olympic team measure up to the highest standard of American athletic prowess. The United States has won world-wide renown by her victories in previous Olympic contests. May the United States still wear that crown of glory when the 1920 Olympiad has passed into history. --BOSTON TRANSCRIPT...
...general examination will crown and fortify this group system. As President Lowell says, the plan "has attracted wide attention, and would seem to be a notable advance in American educational methods." Hitherto, under both the elective system and the ancient curriculum, the examinations have been by separate course, the paper being set by the professor in each of them, and the student being held responsible mainly for such knowledge only as had been imparted in the lectures. They were largely tests of memory, and were scattered through the four years of undergraduate life. As a system it was identical with...