Word: leader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other riders are "fox hunters" or "riders-to-hounds"; "hunter," used singly, refers to a jumping horse used for following hounds...
...This was amply verified in the case of Labor Leader Claudio Bruzon, a political prisoner, whose arm was found inside a shark caught in the waters of Havana Harbor, and fully identified by his wife and friends. The only measure adopted by President Machado's government was to forbid, as shown in the front page of the newspaper El Pais for March 15, 1928, the further fishing of man-eating sharks in the Bay of Havana...
...party is to leave North Station at 12.30 o'clock on Friday and will not return until Sunday evening at 9 o'clock. The leader, Mr. N. E. Odell, of the Geology Department, plans to take the members on the trip to Huntington's and Tuckerman's Ravines. The men making the trip are to be dressed in a complete winter outfit, with snowshoes, ice-axes, and crampons...
Charles Weil Eiseman '30 of Boston was elected to lead the Mandolin Club, while George Wright Briggs of Taunton, will head the Banjo Club. C. M. Under-hill '30 was reelected to the post of Vocal Club leader while B. D. Hanighen '30 will take up the leader's baton before the Gold Coast Orchestra...
...function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction it would seem wiser frankly to admit this and to accept graduate management. Let the student leader touch only that task which...