Word: isn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON thinks Senator Hollis spoke with characteristic impulsiveness when he says that snobbishness is all that he acquired during his four years here. Surely he also acquired the ability to think for himself. His utterances in the Union last year and at Lynn Thursday prove that. The Senator isn't really as terrible a fellow as he says he is. He is a rather valuable sort of snob...
Thus the Musical Review for November is thoroughly readable, and its subscribers will undoubtedly regret there isn't more...
...your columns to call attention to a little bit of a book just out called "Who's Who and Who Isn't" by Charles T. Ryder '067 Ryder was probably the best poet at Harvard eight or nine years ago, and was the first to get the Garrison prize. This little book, in which he sixes up in funny poems the geniuses of the time, alphabetically arranged, is extremely clever, cheerful and full of delicate wit. The illustrations, made by the same author are most grotesquely amusing. Here is a literary trifle that will appeal to undergraduates and graduates alike...
...master the detail, even when hard, and after all that's what a man must do afterward to succeed in life. He must stand fast, work hard, learn his lessons even though they seem wearisome. In a word, football is like life and life is like football. It isn't easy sailing, and success in either is like the search for the four-leaf clover-a lesson in faith, hope, strength and hard work...
...almost insuperable handicap, both in collecting news and managing class reunions. We have before us letter from two distant secretaries both conscientious and willing men, who deplore their handicap. One of them says: 'Never again allow a man who lives far from Harvard to be elected secretary. It isn't fair to him, or to his class.' Nearness to Cambridge does not necessarily make a man a good secretary, but it is one of the desiderate Fitness for the special work of collecting and editing class news, and of welding the class together, are others."--Alumni Bulletin...