Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exception of Captain W. Campbell '16 was the University's most brilliant performer, handicapped the team to such an extent that it was only able to tie Amherst and lose to Brown. Beside these meets the team took part in exhibitions at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Watertown High School, Andover, Exeter, Boston...
However that may be, the editors of the Advocate of all classes deserve praise for at least two reasons. Their current number is not in the least "high brow." It is entirely and frankly unpretentious, and frank unpretentiousness is not invariably a characteristic of undergraduate writing. Also it seldom offends by incorrectness of expression. To be sure, one is obliged to ask himself in reading the review of Mr. Masefield's "Good Friday and Other Poems," whether usage has sanctioned as English idiom the illogical phrase, "centre about"? One must also ask himself what the reviewer of Mr. Conrad...
...What is the matter with the Forum?" a few of its friends who remember its better days are asking. Is it completely deleted, or has it merely crept into a safe hole until the winter blows over. If the latter, then it is high time--if one may mix the metaphor--for the prince, in the person of the new President of the Speakers' Club, to awaken the sleeping beauty with a kiss. A Californian in the Law School recently wrote to his Alumni Fortnightly that Harvard students take a keener interest in public affairs than do western students. Undoubtedly...
...Committee on Scholarships and Other Aids to Undergraduates has made the second assignment from the Price Greenleaf Fund to the following 27 students in the College, for the College year 1915-16: Gordon Willard Allport '19, Glenville High, Cleveland, O.; Paul Harvey Berryman '19, Lake View High, Chicago, Ill., and Lake Forest Academy, Ill.; David Samuel Bond '19, English High, Boston; Clarence Crane Brinton '19, Central High, Springfield; John Michael Connolly uC., College of the City of New York; Ben Bennett Corson '19, Bridgton High, Me., South Portland High, Me., and Gorham High, Me.; Harry Hyman Fein '19, English High...
...quantity and quality of the positions at the disposal of the office is kept up to as high a standard as is consistent with the probable number of applicants. Therefore the larger the number of satisfactory men the office is able to place this year, the greater should be the number of first rate positions which will be offered to it hereafter; for good concerns will presumably not waste their time in indefinitely offering positions unless the office can send them men who turn out satisfactorily...