Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Blue to the finish by more than 10 lengths over the Henley Course on New Haven Harbor. The University Juni0rs took the lead at the start and gained steadily; but Yale was put entirely out of the running by misfortune when, with Harvard four lengths to the good at the mile mark, Kent, at No. 6 in the Eli shell, broke his oar and added a spectacular touch to the event by jumping overboard...
...something in the atmosphere created at Harvard which stimulates men's minds to do big things. Unconsciously, the idea scoffed at by many people, forces are at work continually around us which make for the production of great and brave men. And the reason Harvard is such a good training ground is because it is an exact replica, on a small scale, of the outside world. Here one meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make a success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially...
...significant fact that certain Republican Senators are already advocating the formation of a new national department, under a Secretary of Education, with a seat in the cabinet. If the affairs of private schools and non-land-grant colleges were left strictly alone, such a department might prove a very good thing...
...entering the army was especially low, as was proved by the number of those rejected. Yale has a system of compulsory exercises for men in their freshman year, and this has proved an effective plan. It is expected that this measure, if carried through, will tend to produce similar good results here...
...games yesterday. Holy Cross 1922 lost to the Freshman nine yesterday afternoon by a score of 5-4 in a twelve-inning game. Although the Freshmen easily out-batted their opponents fourteen hits to six, they were unable to concentrate their attack enough. H. S. Russell '22 pitched a good game for the Freshmen for nine innings, and was then replaced by J. R. Meehan '22, who lasted the remainder of the contest...