Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspired by the charms of their band's winsome drum majorette the Lowell House football team ended its regular season yesterday afternoon by defeating Adams 6 to 0 while Dunster was handing Eliot a 32 to 0 shellacking...
Third place is still in doubt with Kirkland and Dunster only a half game apart and with one game apiece to play. Since the Deacons have to play the champion Puritans tomorrow while Dunster has drawn the hapless Eliot eleven which has yet to win a game, the Punsters have the edge on the position...
...last three teams are having a closer race than the first three. Leverett and Adams have each won one game while Eliot has won none. The Bunnies and the Merrimen have two games to play apiece, as their meeting was cancelled that last week and will be played Friday or next Monday...
Since this is so, Harvard needs more--in some cases better--teachers. President Eliot once said that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." Applied to presentday academic ranks, this means more tutors, more permanent appointees with a youthful outlook and personality. And it seems this type of teacher is most frequently found in the "middle group." Since the University chose to adopt a long run attitude towards promotions among the faculty, it would do well to consider the effects of its policy on the modern source of Harvard's greatness...
...like The Fate of Man has been the fate of Herbert George Wells, one of the chief planetary and interplanetary influences of his era. When Wells's worlds are too much with them, modern critics are inclined to forget that Joseph Conrad admired his prose, that T. S. Eliot esteemed his criticism, and that the imagination he brought to popularizing science was a vigorous and useful article...