Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unwise because it subordinated the idea of study and research to mere attendance at classes, many of which were sleepy and stereotyped and had no real value as educational factors. Practically the entire student body agreed that the system in force, which was characterized as "grammar-schoolish" and "moss-covered", needed revision, but many contrary opinions were expressed as to the basis of the change. The first proposal was for unlimited cuts for upperclassmen with an average standing of 70 or better...
Crew 3, Alexander Moss White Jr. '25 of Brooklyn, N. Y., Crew 4, Edward Donald Emerson 4E.S. of Duluth, Minn.; Crew 5, Samuel Gilbert Houghton '25 of Chestnut Hill...
...according to Compayre, five thousand in his school in Paris. And when he retired at one time with but one pupil to a "desert place," students finding his retreat followed him. "Cities and castles were deserted for this Thebaid of science. Tents were set up; mud walls, covered with moss, rose to shelter the numerous disciples who slept on the grass and nourished themselves with rustic dishes and coarse bread...
...Churchill, Chairman, Miss Comilia Hallowell; Richard Chute, Miss Mary Chute; A. H. Ladd, Miss Helen Scott; Everett Moss, Miss Luica Norton; Garrison Norton, Miss Martha Houser; W. K. Shaw, Jr., Miss Isabel Porter...
...have been elected are Richard Dodge Gerould '24 of Cambridge, Francis van Wyck Mason '24 of Winnetka, Ill., Walter Thomas Prendergast '22 of Marion, Ohio, Benjamin Manson Rice '24 of Dover, and Francis Wenderoth Saunders '24 of Boston. From the business competition, the men elected are George Moss Kendall '24 of Bridgewater, John McKinstry Kimball '24 of Portland, Maine, Edwin Katte Merrill '24 of Bedford Hill, N. Y., Frank Manning Seamans Jr. '24 of Weston, James Bentley Squier 3d '24 of New York City, Theodore Lyman Turney Jr. '24 of Yonkers, N. Y., Edward de Witt Walsh...