Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...generations ago the successful debater was the intellectual idol of our colleges, and the art of ex tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed...
...CRIMSON supposes that when this custom was inaugurated it was reasoned that the members of a second team, more particularly in baseball perhaps than in football, have practically no chance of earning the "H" which almost every man on the first squad under certain conditions might receive. As some reward is due them the "H 2nd" was devised and the substitutes for the first team were considered to have enough chance for reward sooner or later without any further complexity of insignia...
...editor of thirty-one years ago to air his opinions about a sheet with which he was once closely identified seems like talking over a grandchild--or a grandmother--in public. But since Harvard, like Nelson's England, expects every man to do his duty, I shall try to do mine in the hope that no family ties may be severed by what...
...MORNING PRAYER. Rev. James G. K. McClure, D.D., LL.D. Topic: "The Man who Encourages." Appleton Chapel...
...night in the Union this evening will serve a double purpose. It will give a man an opportunity to idle away pleasantly an hour of the evening and it will give him a chance to see what the Musical Clubs really look like. It is by no means an exaggeration to say that a great many men in the University never know who's who in any of the musical clubs, under the regime where the clubs only appear in the dual concerts two or three times a year, in the Middle West during the Holidays, and perhaps, once...