Word: mains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wind that precedes the storms they serve as a warning; they give us a chance to re-inforce our intellectual foundation. The mid-years are, next to the finals, the worst event of a college year, but they are a trial that must be gone through with, So the main thing to do is to get ready. If we start now and brush up the dusty spots, the examinations will not mean hours of difficult preparation and sleep less nights, but instead will seem comparatively easy...
...confined to the men who have gone into national service after admission to the undergraduate classes but has also included a diminution of more than 3,000 in this year's entering class. The colleges have been hit, therefore, in their source of supply as well as in their main reservoir...
...revolution in less time than a newspaper can go to press,--they are faster than the Mexicans. So we give up, and until definite news has reached us that one party is in power at least twenty-four hours, we shall refrain from posting the Russian score. The main difficulty in attempting to be a military critic of Russian affairs comes from the fact that when the report reaches us that Kerensky is marching upon Petrograd with 200,000 men we never are quite certain whether the army is being run by Kerensky or whether they are leading him back...
...soccer team lost to Worcester Academy by the score of 3 to 1 yesterday afternoon. The Worcester team showed the benefit of its greater experience and larger amount of practice at all occasions, but the Freshmen played gamely and managed to keep the struggle almost even. The main fault of the 1921 eleven was lack of teamwork due to the short time the men have been practicing together. C. E. Masters '21, who was elected captain of the team on Tuesday, was the individual star for the Freshmen, while Captain Winslow of Worcester showed himself the best player...
...insolence. These however, are the exceptions, and we may feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national service make for a spirit of noblesse oblige, especially in the junior ranks. And so long as they are in the main obtainable on merit and without favoritism, they cannot be fairly called undemocratic...