Word: grave
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Connolly related several interesting anecdotes to illustrate the hardihood and courage of the fishermen, in the face of grave danger, and said that this work produced a very high type of man, mentally and physically. He next spoke on the wonderful seamanship which some of the skippers possess, asserting that it was probably the finest in the world...
...special articles not on football the most generally interesting is that by H. W. Foote '97, on "The Primacy of Harvard." This points out the immediate need of increasing the number of Harvard men from the South and West. At present there is grave danger of Harvard's becoming one of several large "provincial" universities. If it is to retain the place it has hitherto held, a larger proportion of its material must be drawn from parts of the country other than New England. This article is admirably supplemented by an account of the Associated Harvard Clubs, the great Harvard...
...those many graduates whose connection with Harvard is indissolubly bound up with traditions of classes will probably read with feelings approaching sadness the statement made in the news of the Winter Quarter that "It would seem to be the part of wisdom to recognize frankly that there are grave disadvantages as well as advantages in social organization along class lines, that as a result of the great growth of the University, the introduction of the elective system, and other causes, it has long since been outgrown, and therefore to abandon all efforts to revivify it, and aim instead at securing...
...work of Cosimo Tura; A. St. Jerome, by Matteo da Siena; and one oil painting, a portrait of a Cardinal, attributed to Scipio Gaetano, a Roman painter of the sixteenth century. In addition to these Mr. Forbes has sent two ancient marble heads, and an ancient Greek marble grave relief. From Mr. James Loeb have been received a collection of fragments of Arretine moulds, including specimens of the ware, and three early Greek tripods. Two of these tripods will be lent for one year to-the Metropolitan Museum of New York...
Build bridges of gold for a flying enemy. Let the old Med. Fac. go in peace: it is by no means going in triumph. We take it too hard any way, pulling such grave faces and arguing so soberly over the demise of an organization purely devoted to folly and the instigation of laughter. Sincerely yours, EDWARD S. MARTIN...