Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second Freshman meeting for this year will be held this evening in the Smith Halls Common Room from 7 to 7.35 o'clock with the Reverend Sidney Lovett, pastor of the Mount Vernon Church, Boston, as the speaker. The usual talk will be preceded by a few minutes of singing...
...must have its yellow flame, so must Harvard have its yellow peril; yet when the tempting colors have been smudged by rains, and the screaming message out-screamed by the allurements of the Tiddledewinks team, then will we listen one again, indulgently smiling, to echoes of hollow laughter along Mount Auburn street, reverberated from the recesses of an empty stein...
...obviously ridiculous that a margin of six feet in a crew race or a goal after a touchdown in a football game should be enough to send one team home heart-broken, "all in", disgraced,--at least in their own minds,--while the members of the other team mount pedestals to become objects for little short of idolatry. Yet just such a code of sport ethics is set up for us by the impassable gulf we create between winner and loser. With such a point-of-view appreciation of the game for its own sake is lost in accepting...
...best, brings this year many attractions astronomically. Four of the five conspicuous planets occupy prominent places in the evening sky. Venus in the west shortly after sunset is by far the most brilliant object. It is during the last year that the word comes from the Mount Wilson Observatory in California that definite evidence has been obtained of the absence of oxygen and water vapor bands in the spectrum of Venus, thus indicating an apparent lack on that planet of what we regard as life essentials...
...whose diameter has actually been measured, although, like all "fixed stars", it is so far distant that with no telescope of any size however great can we even hope to see size or shape directly. A little more than a year ago, the diameter of Arcturus was measured at Mount Wilson by the interferometer method familiar to the physicist, and found to be 22,000,000 miles or about two and a half times the diameter of our own sun. Its distance is known to be about twelve light years. To the east of Arcturus and Bootes is Lyra...