Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to enter a protest against your use of dashes in your Letters columns when you delete profanity. I approve the deletions, but I see no good reason why you should pique the curiosity of your occasionally profane readers by having all dashes of equal length...
When he entered office, Mr. Bingham created a sensation among the newspaper fraternity by treating them as human beings. This was something new to Harvard correspondents and casual newspaper visitors. For some reason or other, Mr. Bingham didnot seem to fear that he would be stabbed in the back, that he would be systematically betrayed. He spoke frankly with the reporters, nor is there any evidence to show that he ever had cause to regret his frankness. At least, Mr. Bingham, far from adopting a defensive policy, continues to place in the newspapermen with whom he comes into contact, complete...
...absolute contradiction of the tradition of athletics at Harvard. It has never been the policy of the athletic authorities to encourage any one sport at the expense of another. If football happens to be the form of athletic activity that the majority wishes to participate in, there is no reason for requiring them to enter some other field merely because it needs support. The aim of the Athletic Association is to offer an opportunity for those who wish to participate in sports to take part in whatever game they prefer. It is not that the best men be assigned...
Frequent variations in its dogma of selection have resulted in the decline of the Harvard Dramatic Club as an independent stage organization. For some reason the executive staff is always unbending in its rules; the period previous to 1924 saw the Club presenting only plays of foreign authors, never before produced in America; the next few years introduced authors of this nation, but slowly turned from straight drama given by students to a semi-professional cast and a repertory either sensational or frankly song-and-dance. The disturbances of last December caused, for this season at least, the abolition...
...accident which occurred in the case of the ill-fated Italia may seem to many just one more reason for condemning the airship as unsafe and impractical, but it is my opinion that, while aviation will never altogether supersede the automobile, the one will eventually supplement the other as a means of travel...