Word: macaulay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...losing to Cambridge Latin in the first game of the season by the score of 4 to 1. Since then, Exeter has downed Tilton Seminary, Brown Freshmen, and Hebron Academy, winning in each case by overwhelming margins. The nine has been built around six letter men, who are Captain Macaulay, Adams, Burns, Walber, Brackett, and Stone...
...literature can equal. "The proper study of mankind is man". History pursued for such reasons may help much to broaden the mind, quicken the imagination, increase one's knowledge of human nature, and free one from the prejudices peculiar to the time and place in which he lives. Macaulay declared: "The real use of traveling in distant countries and of studying the annals of past times is to preserve man from the contraction of mind which those can hardly escape whose whole communion is with one generation and one neighborhood, who arrive at conclusions by means of an induction...
Plans are now being completed for a Harvard-Dartmouth dance to be held at the Hotel Somerset on October 27, the evening preceding the Dartmouth game. The undergraduate committee at Hanover in charge of the affair is composed of George Fuller '23, of Brighton, and R. P. Macaulay '23, of Revere...
...degree, have not had an equivalent training, or who are candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in the University. Two prizes of $50 each are offered for translations into Attic Greek and Latin of prescribed passages in C. H. Moore's "Religious Thought of the Greeks," and Macaulay's "Critical and Historical Essays," respectively. A prize of $100 is offered to all other resident students for an original essay in either Greek or Latin of not less than three thousand words on any subject chosen by the competitor, written by a holder of an academic degree...
Singularly fitting today are the words uttered by Macaulay when he urged "Reform in order that you may preserve." In the past year we have witnessed repeated examples of the inability of the machinery at Washington to cope with pressing situations. It is not that we have had ignorant or incapable officials in positions of responsibility, but that the means open to those officials are inadequate for the efficient execution of government work. The various departments have expanded to such an extent that the duties of one, overlapping, often interfere with the work of another; and those duties themselves have...