Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor's prompt subscription and good wishes, all thanks.-ED. Chisolm Sirs: It is with great pleasure that I enclose herewith the card sent to me for my signature in connection with your new monthly volume. . . . You may enter me as an Original Subscriber and send me a bill for ten dollars. Whatever TIME gets out is bound to be worth while. My name is spelled CHISOLM-not CHISHOLM. B. OGDEN CHISOLM...
...origin of Harvard crimson, the color was purely accidental; 'it might just as well have been blue.' Of a proposal to dispense with all grades for records of students' work, reporting nothing but 'passed' or 'failed' he said. 'I fear that it would subject our students to too great a strain on their higher motives.' Of a hot-tempered professor, he observed, 'You know, Mr. Briggs, that it is easy to touch a match to him.' I remember his showing me certain inscriptions that he had written for an arch at the World's Fair in Chicago. When I asked...
...victory over their northern opponents by the telling count of 20 to 36. Four of the first five runners to finish over the shortened course were of the Crimson team, while E. R. Butterworth of the Green came in fourth. David Cobb '31, stellar runner, was caused a great deal of trouble by a lame leg, but was able to finish the course...
...spite of the acknowledged improvement of the course it is still one which the sub-freshman will do well to take steps to avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...
Added to both these conditions, is the lesson taught by the past history of Harvard-Dartmouth relations. One of my earliest recollections is of the great Joe Forecast, on the eve of a H-D game, with every other score correctly computed in that fine mind of his, resorting to pulling numbers out of a hat to determine the Dartmouth score! Though I was only a CRIMSON candidate then, it is a lesson which I have never forgotten...