Word: lays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nine times within fourteen years is no argument that this cup winning habit cannot be broken. Within a like period, the University took first honors eleven seasons. However such a boast is no excuse for present shortcomings. The information is given with the expectation that Harvard will lay plans for next year's meet...
Senior who have not yet made out pledges can get them at any hour of the lay in the CRIMSON Building, or can notify the Treasurer, who will send them by mall...
...CRIMSON, as a dignified college paper, should not lay itself open to criticism by countenancing unnecessary disparagement of any college activity. The University has perhaps been unsuccessful in other fields besides debating, but I venture to say that the editorial writer who found amusement in practising his original brand of sarcasm on debating, would not dare to do the same in regard to athletics. It might be good training for him to come out and try for the debating team next year. He would at least learn the wisdom of thinking before writing. He might come out of the debating...
...novels associated with his name; if it had urged that Ralph Waldo Trine is more spiritually nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured to lay hands upon the essential foundations of the social order. It is difficult to see how Boston can retain its position as the modern Athens if youths of such tender age are to regard the most characteristic institution of Boston culture as food for mirth. A Senate investigation into Harvard teaching...
...passed when the colleges could lay down entrance requirements unquestioned; high schools have taken the aggressive, and show a growing tendency to try to dictate the terms on which they will furnish their product. But it is to be hoped they will not try to break down the colleges' qualitative standards not to force acceptance even of preparation of good quality in improper subjects. President Lowell points out that the existing "diversity of admission requirements and curricula" is great, and "gives the boy a chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which...