Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rarest privileges offered to Harvard men is the opportunity to meet and talk with the University preachers who are in Wadsworth House daily from nine until eleven o'clock. The men who come to Appleton Chapel during the course of the year are generally of unusual renown in their calling and prominent in the intellectual life of the country. Notwithstanding the unusual value of the privilege to come into personal contact with such men, it cannot be said the students avail themselves of it to any significant extent. Whenever prominent men visit us to speak upon the political or social...
...knew William James thought less of his learning and renown than of his massive and inspiring personality. The universal admiration given him was ever mixed with love. From him men drew their ideals of human character and were grateful to him for being what he was. They found him the best of comrades--simple, engaging, generous in his estimates of others, tender as a woman, fair-minded, playful, reverent, and unconventional, with a natural elevation of thought and manner which made all excellence easy in his presence. As we now recall that erect form, alert bearing, kind eye, and masterful...
...gruelling contest. Nine huskies will then be picked from each squad, and the game will be on. No one has as yet been found willing to risk the brutalities likely to overtake the umpire, but Mr. Beach, representing the University Press, and "Mac," a CRIMSON scrivener of renown, have agreed to act as attorneys-on-the-field to intercede with the umpire. The arena will be the Freshman diamond. Bubbling beer will be used to resuscitate the contestants who will be festooned with appropriate colors to designate to which fraternity they belong. The numerous spectators that will undoubtedly attend...