Word: inventive
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...first crew will be forced to invent some way of showing a good deal of ability, perhaps a little more than they have shown yet or some of the second crew men will relieve them of any such responsibility. Some on the second crew have shown a great deal of improvement within the last ten days. Grant has come to them from the 'varsity and is rowing at No. 5. He showed that he has much natural ability, and with close application to his work and Jones' coaching he ought to be an addition to his class crew. Before Grant...
...three and a half columns. The letter purports to be written by a graduate. Certainly it was not written by any one who was connected with the college; and Harvard men may hope that no one who ever was connected with the college has proved so disloyal as to invent the libels contained in the article. The writer is so evidently behind the times, and his spiteful motive is so thinly disguised, that it would hardly be worth while to reply to him if he had not manipulated the figures from the catalogue in such a way as easily...
...chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks, a course which tends towards anything but broad thought and careful work...
...introduction and the division of the essay proper under various legitimate, well ordered heads. The exposition should be as concise as possible and ought to exhibit independent thorough study. The speaker properly complained of a desire upon the part of many writers to assimilate rather than to invent and on the part of more, rather to arrange the work of others than to assimilate it. As the next forensic is to be of some length, all are advised to select a subject which will not "give out" before the forensic does. Especial care should be taken in the formation...
...hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...