Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose of this article is to show what becomes of our University captains when they leave college. The author points out that 13 per cent. of the captains of University baseball, football, and crew prior to 1905 are mentioned in Who's Who. and that this is slightly higher than the number of Phi Beta Kappa members so recorded for the same period. The author modestly admits that this does not prove very much. It certainly lacks a good deal of proving that athletes generally succeed better than scholars. Presumably the captains represent the very pick of all the teams...
...Social Service report for the year 1911-12 is made very significant, not only by the fact that a greater number of men have carried on Social Service work with a higher degree of efficiency than in any other previous year, but also by the fact that Harvard is considerably in advance of other colleges in the efficiency and scope of its Social Service work. Cornell has only five men engaged in Boys' Club work, but this small number is sufficient to cope with the needs of a small town like Ithaca. One hundred men take part in settlement work...
...start the navy crew took a slight lead and both eights were rowing nearly forty strokes to the minute. When the quarter-mile was reached, the two shells were even again, but the University second crew was forced to use a slightly higher stroke to maintain their position. At the half-mile the navy crew began to draw ahead and it continued to increase the lead until one-half mile distant from the finish. The University second crew was unable to raise its stroke for the finish, whereas the Navy eight made a splendid spurt and crossed the line...
...word, "The Pierian" was a real orchestra. For to technical ability, precision and security, it added in novel measure the higher, the finer, the imaginative, intuitive and expressive virtues of orchestral playing when it is not a routine or a pastime, but an ambition and an art. More than one in its audience heard almost amazed...
...Spalding '87 of the department of Music, told of the success of the Historic Operatic Concerts and the support which they have received from graduates of the University. The opera is not a light amusement but an educational force; it is a composite art and appeals to the higher qualities of the listener. In spite of the commercial spirit of this age, the opera will have a vital growth in the future, and it is only commercial power which can provide operatic productions...