Word: mens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this vast and intricate equipment exists for research and scholarship, but it is chiefly arranged to the advantage of the students who in short generations use it and pass on. In the college and university world for a little while withdrawn from the instant demands of their times young men mature their minds and establish their bodies in healthful ways. At Harvard for almost three hundred years now they have been moving toward these ends in an atmosphere of traditions subtly and slowly changing and yet preserving something characteristic from the beginning. Once Harvard was small now it is great...
...most men leave their alma mater bent upon a hundred careers; they are trained business executives, landscape architects, and spectroscopists as often as teachers and more often than they are preachers. Once they walked for exercise and milked the college cow; now they are highly specialized athletes or men who have developed a superb technique of sitting in stadiums and an amazing lung power. In the seventeenth century they devoted themselves with the part singing of hymns and endless discussion of theological subtleties in the twentieth they hear a symphony go to the theatre or dine at a roadhouse...
...gorilla, with special emphasis on habits in the field that might affect the growth of its skull, also a study of the writings on the gorilla's brain and skull by such anatomists as Anthony, Bolk, Duckworth, Elliot Smith, Selenka, Keith, and Harris, often supplemented by discussion with these men...
...former looked like all-American timber with his bruising tackling and omnipresence, while it was only the mighty kicks of the latter that kept the Worcester boys at bay so successfully. They are a couple of players whom any coach could use. Holy Cross too had some fine men on the field, notably O'Connell, the Sophomore back who ran eighty-odd yards from a kick-off here in the Stadium a week or so ago. He is shifty, fast and a very hard runner. The chances are that Harvard fans will hear more from Mr. O'Connell before...
...Men for the positions of Marshals, Odist, Treasurer, Orator, Poet, Chorister and Ivy Orator will be elected Wednesday...