Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hammer-throw the scratch man, A. Stevens '19, lost with a throw of 39 ft, 9 inches. G. G. Monks '21 won the event with a handicap of 12 ft. and a distance of 43 ft., 10 inches, C. A. Clarke, Jr., '19 with 12 ft. handicap secured second place, throwing 41 ft., 6 inches...
Thirty-four per cent, of Harvard University is engaged in athletic sports. At Yale, though official figures are not available, an unofficial estimate would total about the same--more than thirty per cent. "Not near enough," snaps the advocate of general athletics and a game for every man...
...right, even expert visionaries; but the majority opinion of experts is nearly always, if not exactly wrong, at least a few years behind. And reasonably enough; for the more expert an expert is, the less willing to admit that another expert can be more expert than himself. Doubtless the man who first lit a fire with flints had to do it under the ridicule of experts in lighting fire by the method of the fathers, the rubbing of sticks, who knew that they couldn't light a fire with flints and that consequently no one else could...
...advantages of contact with men from all parts of the country are innumerable. There is nothing so interesting, nor broadening as the so-called "mixing" with men of varied types and opinions; it is fully half of a man's education. There is no doubt that the comparatively few men who do come here from the West and South gain much by their association with New Englanders; but do the New Englanders with their predominant number gain all that they could if they had more classmates from distant parts? The same holds true of the relations between Southerners and Westerners...
...this side of the Atlantic. Henri Emile Lavedon is one of the greatest living French litterateurs, having been a member of the Academy since 1898, and at present an officer in the Legion of Honor. The title and idea of "Sire" was suggested to him when quite a young man upon a visit to the Orleans a Blois. As he waited for his friend in a beautiful reception room, an old, white-haired woman entered and greeted...