Word: peg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...introduction and in order to expose to full public view the news peg on which every newspaper story is supposed to hand, let it be declared that Harvard is doing itself and higher education in general a distinctly good turn in allowing any department to require general final examinations as a prerequisite for graduation. Incidentally, it is also doing the students a good turn, although it is not inconceivable that there might be some difficulty in getting the students to admit it. Boston Transcript
...Parson '16, at number two. They were both dropped to the second eight where Parson remained until he was forced to give up rowing altogether by order of the crew doctor. Stebbins remained in crew B ever since. Captain D. P. Morgan '16 went from six up one peg to the number four position. J. Talcott '16 went back to number three and Cabot to five, H. A. Quimby '18 coming out of the second boat to take the number seven oar in the University eight. J. C. White, 2d, '17 also came up from the Junior eight to fill...
...came back but was put into the second crew where he remained until the next radical shift which was made on the day of arrival at the training quarters at Red Top. Cabot took bow, forcing Potter into seven in the second boat. Captain Morgan moved up one more peg into his last year's and more suitable seat, thus forcing White down to the second also. Morgan's place at four was then taken by Taylor. Talcott went up to number three which had been vacated by Cabot. A. Coolidge made his first appearance in the University boat...
...that is the summit of wisdom, if we have come to College for the purpose of learning how best to peg along with things as they are,--then we have made a great mistake in choosing an institution which makes a speciality of cultural training, and which has departments of economics and government attempting to find ways to improve the world we live in. Certainly such organizations as the Socialist Club and the International Polity Club had best cease at once to dream dreams and see visions. More enlightened is the statement of another Boston newspaper that it does...
...ideas. In an institution such as this, where the stuff of life is thought, such intellectual relapses and stagnation are least excusable. Nevertheless, the University is situated in one of the few localities in this country in which a newspaper can advise its readers to be content to peg along in the world...