Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Roberts, speaking in the English House of Commons yesterday, quoted President Eliot's opinion in the matter of the closing of drinking places, and added "we hope to see Dr. Eliot as United States ambassador to this country." The remark was greeted with hearty cheering...
...well to express especial acknowledgment of Mr. Wilfrid North's coaching. It was evident not only in the principals but in the many crowds. On the whole the acting, individual and concerted, was well above the standard of amateurs. This is all the more a matter for remark when one realizes that no more difficult task could imaginably have been set them than an interpretation of "The Promised Land." In comparison Shakspere would have been easy...
...much confidence may reasonably be taken in the remark made by a man of wide football experience after Saturday's game, "That is the best Harvard team I ever saw"? There is no denying the fact that the exhibition of all around football displayed by the University team against Carlisle was noticeably better with the exception of kicking and handing punts than that of any Harvard team as far back as the present board can recall. The most conspicuous element and the most gratifying was the ample evidence of strategic football brains and it was quite as much a triumph...
...will" for "shall" in a recent notice appearing over my name is due to the fact that the notice in question was conveyed from my house by telephone, to the CRIMSON, after my sudden and urgent departure from Cambridge. I make this remark with the hope that it will spare me the receipt of additional anonymous postal cards regarding this matter. These in one way are pertinent, in another grossly impertinent. J. D. M. FORD...
...newest which Mr. Wister has set before his readers is that of the visit of Jeremiah Smith to Mount Vernon and the kindly hospitality with which Washington received him, and, when the time for retiring came, escorted him to his room, pointed to the blazing fire with the reassuring remark that it was the perfectly safe and bade his guest good-night with the permission to keep his light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this was the inevitable result...