Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...even minor responsibility is becoming proverbial and, indeed, the question is one of the hardiest of the hardy perennials that grow in the editorial column. And that is not all. In the phrase "college-graduate irresponsibility" we have an addition to our categories. Again and again business men remark upon the shiftlessness and carelessness of the college man, and with unanswerable arguments demonstrate his inferiority in this matter of accuracy...
Apropos of the communication in your Saturday edition, our friend Quintus Flaccus would be tempted to remark:--"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus". Indeed the whole affair, from the mingled applause and that combination of 'hiss' and 'sneer' which so worries our friend, to the newspaper article, the letter and the now current argument pro and con, smacks of hyperbole...
...these few meetings the Freshman class splits up into a large number of small groups, for the most part isolated and distinct from one another. Pre-college acquaintanceships and preparatory school friendships from the basis of this class subdivision. This is the prevalent condition that causes President Lowell to remark that "exhortation and advice are well-nigh fruitless without a favorable environment...
...remark commonly attributed to President Kirkland of Harvard College that the only use of statistics was in refuting other statistics suggests itself. But, more seriously considered, it seems likely that the law school stood with many boys prepared in private schools for the first thoroughly earnest intellectual effort. Not needing the monetary scholarships at college, they were satisfied with 'gentlemen's marks'; but, aroused by the call of professional ambition in the law school, they had thrown themselves into the work with enthusiasm...
...regard to Mr. Lambert Murphy's communication on the subject of stimulating Harvard interest in the Opera, we should like to remark that Mr. Murphy who is a Harvard graduate in the class of '08 is a tenor in the Metropolitan Opera Company, and that his suggestion appears to us a valuable one in starting the movement in favor of a closer connection between Harvard and the opera. His views are particularly interesting as expressing not only how a graduate feels about the matter, but how a member of the Opera feels. We hope that this rising interest will bring...