Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Undoubtedly the paramount problem before the undergraduate community is the proper adjustment of academic and extra-curriculum work. The neglect of scholarship is a deplorable fact; persistent attention to so-called "outside activities" in omnipresent. We realize fully the maladjustment of our college life, and our problem concerns its readjustment. In the solution it is obvious that the various activities of some two-thousand men cannot be reduced to one pursuit, scholarship, but it seems possible that a closer connection may be set up between college courses and other undergraduate endeavor. If such a connection be possible, academic work will...
...must undertake if elected? Election on this basis is bound to result in the choice of the men best fitted to make the class a unit and to hold it together in future years. To elect such men, and to elect them by a large vote, is the paramount duty of the class of 1913. Let every Senior cast his vote today...
Before the next publication of the CRIMSON, three athletic events of paramount interest to Harvard will take place. The second Yale baseball game occurs tomorrow, the races at New London a week later and the track meet between the English and American teams in the middle of July...
...general survey and inspection of the land, rights of ways, and laws and regulations of the locality. Then attention should be turned to the franchise, which should consider the interests of the municipality, the inhabitants, the corporation, and the investors. The city wants quick, efficient, reasonable service; the inhabitants' paramount interest is in the character of the service; the company wants freedom from the danger of unnecessary, annoying regulations; and the investors desire security. In Mr. Curtis's opinion the franchise should take the form of a perpetual, private charter...
...chief difficulty for several years. With so many counselors, a head coach had more work reconciling his assistants' opposing views than teaching the team. Then, too, there was a wide divergence of opinion, for they had been trained under different systems, with no permanently accepted creeds. No man stood paramount, nor, indeed, was there one worthy of speaking the final word in the daily and nightly debates...