Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Medals will be given for the first two places in each event, and for the first and second highest individual point-winners, and a banner will be awarded the school of the victorious team. A dinner will be served the teams in the Trophy Room of the Union at 5.30 o'clock...
...helping to set the standards of behavior and taste not only for New York, but for the whole country, and among these patrons are, inevitably, Harvard graduates and undergraduates. That such a place should be habituated by men and women who are wont to term themselves ladies and gentlemen points to many things--in particular, to that unwillingness that has become an inability to see straight, to look at things from a healthy point of view; it points to a decadent standard among those whose opinion influences not alone the standard of morals for the community, but the standard...
...Diary of a Restoration Gentleman," which successfully imprisons within fixed form the loose and rambling idiom of Samuel Pepys. Some change of the second line which would avoid the double use in the rhyme position of the word "approach" would leave a sonnet of memorable power, beauty, and satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet and in his three quatrains, "Poets Forgotten" there is everywhere abundant grace, charm, case of manner...
...Morgan '17 is captain of the team for the second year, during which time he has played point. He is 21 years old, five feet nine inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, and prepared at Middlesex...
Gold medals will be awarded to the winners in the seven classes. First place will count four points and second and third two and one respectively, with one-half point added if a fall is secured. The preliminary bouts will be held Saturday afternoon and the finals in the evening...