Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduate opinion. A more inopportune attack could not have been made by the outside press. Undergraduates are ready to support their team in the face of an unfavorable outlook, and it hardly behooves a graduate paper to attempt to dampen their ardor by throwing cold water at the last moment. Ordinarily we should not call attention to such an article, but since this has come before the outside public, it devolves upon undergraduates to show by their attitude that this premature apology was neither authoritative nor representative...
...fashioned line bucking. At times, this method of attack seemed to possess considerable power but when it neared the goal line and went against the stiffened defense of the Springfield line it was held twice, both times within the 5-yard line. This lack of power at the critical moment was most discouraging and can only be explained by the fact that the annual mid-season slump is at hand...
...those who enjoy the "absolute shall", the dogmatic assertion that fundamental reforms can and must be put through without a moment's delay, Professor Beale's "Reorganization of the University," will prove delightful. We have heard the "College system" recommended, but Professor Beale commands it. The article is fairly melodramatic; each sentence, sharp, clear-cut, sweeping, provides new excitement. When we have finished, we wonder breathlessly how Harvard can continue to exist if all the things Professor Beale says are true...
...other numbers two mark themselves out. In "Atropos" Mr. Shipherd takes us back to the deluge and gives a keen study of self-centered emotion, a picture of the last man clambering up Ararat before the waters cover the universe. The tense tragedy of the final moment is well done. Mr. Simon's "The Blue Coat" tells the story of a poor Russian peasant woman following with high hopes on the trail of the husband who has sought a new home in this country. She discovers he has found a new bride and forgotten the old. It is an elemental...
...risk of being thought an iconoclast in a community where traditions are all too few, the writer ventures a suggestion which may seem to many too radical for even a moment's consideration...