Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long ago The Boston Herald announced on "unassailable statistical authority" that one out of every six men entering Harvard from a selected group of high schools in the vicinity of Boston received honors while in College. As a result of a like inquiry in "six fashionable private schools" only one man in thirty-five attained the same record...
Yesterday morning The Herald editorially wrote as follows...
While it may be true that a few men who loaf through College are able to settle down and achieve brilliant distinction in the Law School, the inference from the Herald editorial that such is the usual course of events among students coming from certain boarding schools does not appear to us necessarily to follow from the facts. It would be equally logical to deduce that since only one in thirteen of the public school men received honor grades in the Law School while one in six received them in College, therefore, public school men who had distinguished themselves...
Were this our only ground against the sentiment of the Herald editorial, we would surely be held for making a mountain of a mole-hill and quibbling over a point which was after all a matter of opinion. We cannot close our eyes, however, to the deduction that any College student might naturally draw from the Herald's conclusion, i.e. that earnest intellectual effort in College has after all little effect upon intellectual achievement in the Law School, and that if a man only makes up his mind to work hard i the Law School, it makes little difference whether...
Umpire T. M. Bankhart, Dartmouth, Referee J. Hallahan, Boston Herald...