Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour of midnight, reeling, liquor-addicted Harvard students attract notoriety to the college which defeated the Blue on the 26th. Shall such doings be suffered to continue in this character-building institution, this "fair Harvard"? Obtaining synthetic gin is no longer so difficult and clever a feat that those who accomplish it need show to the outside world how enlivening an effect gin has. No longer is it a truly remarkable achievement to get enough wine for boisterous merriment. Drunkard ness among students, while pitiable, is not a condition which is altered by weeping or preaching. As long...
...virtual effect of dialect, in his "Translation from the Navajo", by a well arranged introduction of Indian words and by an imitation, in the direct discourse, of Indian simplicity of speech. But why does Mr. Morrison, in "Leaves and Fishes", cause his interlocutor suddenly to perform the impossible feat of abandoning his natural dialect when quoting the Baptist minister...
...much has already been said of its appointments, its tournaments and prizes, its unusually fine program of speakers, that we feat repetition would be only boring. There is, however, one thing obtainable at the Union that we should like to mention,--a thing which is too often passed by. That is the opportunity for contact with one's fellows; opportunity to see and hear what others are thinking and doing, which is of inestimable value as part of an education. We hope no one will shy because we say it is part of an education. But we cannot express...
...school--was termed one of the twenty-five most brilliant minds in the United States. This honor was conferred upon him as a result of making a perfect score in the army "alpha" intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service men who took this examination during the war period. Some of the words whose meaning he had to give to answer the questions are, pomology, cleistogamous, chamfer and guimpe...
...came to this country as Head Coach of the Union Boat Club of Boston. In 1914 he took an eight from the Union Boat Club to the Henley Race in England and saw it follow the second University crew across the finish line for second place, thus rivalling the feat of Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, who in the same year took the second University crew to the Henley and won the race. From this time dates the connection of Coaches Haines and Herrick which has proved so valuable to rowing at the University...