Word: medium
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Advocate is in many was a worthy and even remarkable product of the undergraduate literary mind. There is throughout a note of maturity, due no doubt to the peculiar atmosphere of Harvard as contrasted with other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre is irresistible...
...future, said Mr. Clayton, the atmosphere will undoubtedly be used as a medium of travel. The flying machine without a gas bag, will be the most common vehicle of aerial travel, but the spherical balloon will hold its place for the pleasure-seeker...
Since the race with Yale at New Haven on November 13, the team has been doing very light work. During the past week the men have taken two short, fast runs and twice have covered a seven-mile course at a medium gait, in order to increase their staying power. Tomorrow the team will arrive in Princeton, and in the afternoon will walk over the Princeton course...
...Freshman baseball team won a poorly played game from Milton Academy, at Milton, yesterday afternoon by the score of 3 to 1. The batting of the team against a pitcher of only medium ability was extremely poor. The fielding also was far below the average, four errors being made. Hicks's pitching was the only redeeming feature of the game. He was in good form and struck out fifteen men. The only hit that was secured off him could have been prevented by better fielding. The score by innings: Innings...
...such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant foreign immigrants receive their first impression of American law and government. The Slav of yesterday is the citizen of tomorrow, and it depends upon the police how much he likes his new home...