Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have just one more suggestion to make. Don't you think that some noted high school teacher should re-write such antiquated authors as Bacon, Shakespere, and Ben Jonson, putting them into up-to-date American English and giving them an American code of morality? It is so annoying to have to bother with an old idiom. It is for this reason, too, that a modern writer should tell us all about Rome for he not only is in a better position to judge of the life of the first century A.D. than would be a Pliny the Younger...
Progress toward the summum bonum in education has been slow during the last five thousand years but nevertheless it has been encouraging. We may trust the time will soon come when the great high schools of the country will give courses in merchandising, emphasizing the practical side of it, of course, as for example, teaching the eager youth of the country how to dispose of dry goods in the basement for five dollars that goes begging on the first floor at two dollars and fifty cents...
...Rand '09, chairman of the Graduate Advisory Track Committee, and former intercollegiate champion in the high hurdles, will speak to all hurdlers at the Varsity Club at 7 o'clock tonight. Any man who ever has been or aspires to be a hurdler has here an excellent opportunity to learn something about running and training for the hurdles...
...recent communication in our columns urges that the 1920 Red Book should be abandoned, saying that such a heavy expenditure for selfish purposes is unjustifiable in the face of the pressing needs of European nations. Aside from the obviously high motives of our correspondents, it is difficult to see the practical value of their suggestion since its application would only keep a little extra spending money in the pockets of each Freshman, without adding in any way to the resources of the relief committees abroad...
...three judges will be Mr. George Weston Anderson, LL.B., Mr. Charles Winfield Parameter, A.M. Ph.D., headmaster of the Mechanic Arts High School of Boston, and Mr. Lewis Perry, M.A., headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy. The following have been appointed ushers: E. L. Casey '19, C. A. Clark '19, H. H. Dadmun '17, J. C. Harris '17, R. Horween '18, W. H. Wheeler, Jr., '18, and M. Wiggin...