Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Norton in sketching the political career of Governor Russell, said that while born and bred a Democrat, he believed that principle should always come before party. Embodying in its most advanced form the "Cambridge idea," he began by ridding the city government of the unclean element with which it had become associated. His excellent administration of the affairs of the city drew attention to him throughout the state. The Democracy, risen from the lethargy in which it had lain for years, now found in him the sterling leader whom it needed...
...Some attribute the defects to the elective system with its diversity of courses and aims and its consequent separation of the class into groups of men with different interests. But the "sets" and "societies" are not formed with these groups as a basis. They and the so-called "nonsociety" element are rather composed of men from each of these different groups with different aims. Scientific and classical students form not widely disproportionate parts of the same clubs...
...Delany, '96, for an essay entitled "The Fanatical Element in the German Reformation...
...distinctive feature of Harvard's crew this year is the stand off the stretcher from catch to finish. It is an element of the stroke in which Harvard crews have been very deficient of late years. The body swing is very long. The leg drive beginning at the catch with the shoulders thrown on hard to gain a strong position. The pressure is increased through the stroke ending in a hard finish. There is no lift in the stroke as there was last year but a horizontal drive throughout. The hands are shot away quickly and the body swing taken...
...himself personally responsible for the success of our next celebration, and should be prompt to suppress the first exhibition of the wrong sort. This is especially necessary in view of the fact that there is sure to be present at any celebration of students a large and unruly town element...