Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about. The latest contribution to literature which will find its place in the historical archives is the story of the invasion of the West by the Harvard University Football Team of 1919, written by one who followed the team to the Golden Gate not as one of the besieging host, but as the chronicler par excellence, William C. Spargo. The witty style will at once appear familiar to any who read the sporting page of one of the large Boston evening papers and who enjoy the "Speaking of Sport" Column. As the foreword explains, the booklet was written...
...duties of citizenship were ranked above all others, it is evident that then a clearer opinion on the matter might be formulated. And the opinion would seem necessarily to be this: we need rather a considerable number of men with highly developed ability and brilliant attainments than an unlimited host of comparatively able average...
...Harvard student can resolve to place emphasis upon the acquisition of usable knowledge, upon mental development, rather than the "getting by" or "pulling a B" attitude. If marks had been a criterion of a man's future success, then marks would have consigned Emerson, the historian Prescott, and a host of other Harvard leaders to eternal ignominy. The purpose of education has been well expressed by Professor Henry Holmes: "Not a mind to be informed but a world to be understood...
...educate, but also, and more, to radiate that culture which academic association alone can produce. It would require one hundred and six years to attend all the courses at Harvard, and we can hardly hope to get an education from sixteen. Most of us are circling like a host of flies about one of the world's greatest centers of learning, barely touching here and there on the surface. Here at College we can gain a background through association and, if we search can find the culture which will mean so much in after life. As we rush madly from...
...Harvard School of Landscape Architecture will play the part of host at the session of the American City Planning Institute which takes place today at Robinson Hall. The meetings will continue throughout the day, both morning and afternoon assemblies being scheduled, as well as the evening session...