Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the University Cross-Country team yesterday afternoon Amos Roberts Bancroft '17, of West Newton, was elected captain for the 1916 season. Bancroft prepared at West Newton High School and ran on his Freshman team. That year he finished with the leaders in every run and in the race with Providence Tech, he led his team in. Last year he was prevented from running because of difficulty with the office. In the early part of the past season he did brilliant work, being the first man over the line for the University in the Cornell race. Unfortunately an attack...
...Perverseness of Pamela," by Virginia Church, is a delightfully keen comedy in three acts, dealing with the social intrigues and amusing side of life at a well-known army post. The chief figure, of course, is Pamela, an irresistible, charming, incorrigible young lady who keeps everyone in a high state of excitement. This play was highly commended by the judges of the Craig Prize competition. Miss church, having lived at an army post in Virginia, knows her subject well...
...current number of the "Musical Review," the article by Professor Spalding, entitled "The Need for a Broader Conception of Culture," is easily the most significant, despite the high quality and able critical attitude displayed in the other contributions. Professor Spalding demonstrates with cogent reasoning the appalling limitations existent in the estimation, as to what constitutes cultivation, appeals justly for a more concrete realization of the intellectual and emotional scope afforded by music of the highest type, and establishes the unassailable right of the arts to occupy a position as a means of culture fully equal to that afforded by literature...
...caption "Opera, Owned and Borrowed," on the ever fresh problem of opera in Boston, one which should be solved if that community is to retain its position in the musical life of the country. Comments on an editorial from the "Opera Magazine," and reviews conclude a number of high standard which must re-affirm the consideration to which the "Musical Review" is entitled as a genuine contribution to the critical activity of our country...
...matter of fact, however, the men who stand highest in their high school classes in the West are usually better students than a great many eastern men who tutor their way into the College. Under the present system mediocre men who have the advantage of the elaborate tutoring system of the East are preferred to more capable men in the West and South who have no such props...