Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well as four footballs won by Freshmen classes. In the same case are the Harvard-Yale dual cup, the Ardsley Intercollegiate Golf Cup, the Fencing Trophy won in 1899, and four albums of photographs. Another case contains the Mott Haven Cup won in 1890, the Frank Wells and the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Cups, the Cumnock Cup presented to A. J. Cumnock '91, the '86 Quarter Mile Cup won and presented in 1886 to Harvard by S. Gannett Wells '86, and a silver baseball won in the eighties. The Beacon Interclass Rowing Cup, which has been competed for from 1864 until...
...January, 1830, "The Collegian," the ablest of all Harvard periodicals was started, principally through the efforts of J. O. Sargent '30, the only editor of the "Register" then in College. It was in this paper that Oliver Wendell Holmes began his literary career, taking for his assumed name "Frank Hock." His writings were more numerous than those of any other contributor and were copied throughout the country. Twelve of them have since been published with his later works. In style, the "Collegian" was light and witty, and was for the first time the voice of current events and opinions about...
...best are the second of D. G. Mason's sketches, and an article on Stevenson's letters by W. Morrow '00. The other contributions are: "The Emancipation of Greene," by W. Gros venor; "Where Man's Strength Fails," by Rowland Thomas; "A Child of the Revolution," by Frank Simonds; "Old Friends in New Parts," by B. B. Lee '01; and "Dusk," by Richard Washburn Child. The editorial contains some objections to the proposed site of the new Union...
...very refreshing to hear an economist say that the principal thing on which he relies in carrying out his work of leading Yale University is the sentiment of graduates. He has not ignored the practical side, as abundant direct passages and frank statements testify, but he declares without qualification that the sentiment of the graduates of Yale is the most important support which the leader of Yale can have in carrying out the most important work of Yale. This is just as true a statement as it is an unexpected one for an executive to make. Let this always...
...machinery of the "Frank Thomson" which is in fair condition has been set up in the engineering laboratory where it will be used for experimental work...