Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sure; his characterization is, excellent. In "The Territorial", in Veterans of the Marne", and in "The Family With Whom I Lived in Soissons", it is the vivid rendering of types,--be they Yanks, Zouaves, Moroccans, Poilus or peasants,--which gives the book charm and significance. It is a high-hearted book, both verse and pictures making the best of a bad business...
Phillips Exeter Academy leads the list with six graduates among those receiving scholarships, while Boston Latin School, Boston English School, Kent School, Chelsea High School, and Westfield High School each have two representatives...
Formerly two Rhodes scholars were elected every year from each state, thus giving Nevada, with a population of 114,000, as large a representation as New York. The new rules provide that when no candidate is of sufficiently high quality, none shall be chosen. Although the present choices were not made under the new ruling, the change indicates a tendency which may lead to further amendments to remedy the present unequal representation...
...opening crew races of the fail regatta which were scheduled to take place yesterday were called off on account of the high wind. One or two of them were started, but the wind made conditions so erratic that no results were counted...
...Winchester won the individual honors for the 1923 harriers yesterday by finishing first in the race against Wakefield High, held on the Belmont course. The Freshmen, placing first, third, fourth, fifth and tenth, bad a score of 23, as compared to Wakefield...