Word: plainest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plainest lessons to be learned from this affair is that one week is too short a time to come between such important meetings. Another is that some effective organization of the University is needed through which the students can express their opinion of such performances as the one under discussion, and through which they can ask for an explanation of some kind from the responsible persons. As it is, the Athletic Committee regulates the conduct of athletics merely in a kind of a general way: the actual management of the teams is in the hands of the captains and their...
...such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only a very difficult thing, calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience as well. Translating teaches us as nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have...
...that the Athletic Committee has not confirmed the reelection of Mr. Waters as captain of the eleven will probably not cause much surprise, considering the fact that the committee put itself on record a few weeks ago as against the principle of graduate captains. It was stated in the plainest way, when this announcement was made, that in the opinion of the committee, the best interests of Harvard athletics demanded that the captaincy of the teams be confined to undergraduates. An exception was made in the case of baseball for the perfectly obvious reason that there was no undergraduate...