Word: discreeter
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...representatives from the various classes for the Anniversay Committee have been chosen, and the result of the election shows that each class has thoroughly considered the matter, before casting its vote. The men selected are energetic, discreet, and popular among their fellows, and they will undoubtedly work hard and zealously to make this occasion - the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard - a memorable one in the annals of the present undergraduates. This is a chance which will come to us but once, so let us seize it and have a glorious celebration in every sense...
...case. He does not hold to the old idea of twenty years ago, which prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he believe that the average boy of 18 years is mature and discreet enough to be allowed to come and go as he pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which to choose. Harvard has 200 courses of study, from which the student...
...very steps of the dormitories, play tag upon the steps of the gymnasium and swarm in crowds over the track and diamond of the athletic fields. Nor are all of these muckers of tender age, some of them have attained to years of discretion, but are not discreet enough to mind their own business even yet. They, as well as their smaller brethren, have become a nuisance upon the athletic fields when any practice games or exercise is going...
...doomed; that Columbia would leave us by many lengths, etc., etc. Naturally men of this stamp sometimes prophesy correctly, and then the chorus of "I told you sos" with which they greet us is nauseating to the last degree. When they make a mistake, instead of preserving a discreet silence, they croak about the next event in which the college is interested...
...every nerve to avoid, and purpose to avoid by settling the conditions of the race before accepting Yale's challenge, in order that there may be no misunderstanding afterwards, and it is to be hoped that they will not be hindered in their efforts by graduates more zealous than discreet...