Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Undue pessimism has not value, yet it would be well for every man to remember what this Christ-tide has meant through the centuries, and what it ought to mean to us now; the time to practice the greatest of all virtues, charity...
...South is proud to claim Harvard graduates who are always among most prominent citizens. Although have many universities in the South with no mean standing, still our most brilliant lawyers and ablest ministers usually come from Harvard...
...Milton Academy; Clinton McCarthy Jones, Hammond High School, N. Y., and Andover, (Price Greenleaf Aid); Benjamin Kelson, Boston Latin and Springfield Central High School, (Price Greenleaf Aid); Emery Nelson Leonard, Newton High School; Valentine Evert Macym, Jr. Browning School, New York, N. Y.; Hotchkiss and Evans Schools, Mean, Ariz.; Arthur William Marget, Boston Latin, (Price Greenleaf Aid); Samuel Mulson, Passaie High School, N. J., (Harvard Club of New Jersey); Joseph Barin Nathan, Boston Latin; Albert Palmer, Newton High School; Buel Whitting Patch, Exeter; Edmund William Pavensedt, Collegiate School, New York, N. Y., Realgymnasium, Bremen and Pomfret; Francis Underwood Perry, Country...
...ninth place the year before, Exeter, Country Day School, Groton and St. Paul's School have shown a tendency to hold their respective places. Although one year's high rank may not be a certain measure of a school's efficiency, continued presence in the honor list must mean superior methods of teaching. Hence, although the winning school each year deserves the medal awarded to it, still more justice would be obtained by awarding two or three prizes for the highest score over a period of years...
...great majority of people have to compile, to perfect, or to work out the ideas or acts of the pioneers. But there are always people who might be pioneers if they exerted the will, or if circumstances opened the way. The adventurers who mean progress are coming more and more from the colleges. Hence humanity and progress are calling to youth, especially those aided by a college education, to become leaders. Michigan Daily...