Word: rested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relief to his surcharged spirits. But tempting as this species of amusement may be to alleviate the excessive exuberance of these nocturnal revellers, it makes a sorry lullaby for those who would like to sleep. Some of us merely like to sleep, but there are others who need their rest, and it will be more than inconsiderate if these noisy brawlers continue to make hideous the night...
...proposed to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary by putting a colonnade round the top of the Stadium and thus carrying out something like the original plan. It suggested that the Athletic Association should pay twenty-five thousand dollars toward the proposed addition, and that the class should pay the rest. Generous as the suggestion was, the committee did not at first feel authorized to assume a new debt. At last the Corporation, the committee, and the class came to an agreement. To show the final position of the committee in this matter, I quote several paragraphs from the record...
...course of studies in college as a whole and under the best advice, it is provided that at the end of his Freshman year, when he may be presumed to have acquired some familiarity with college work, he shall present to his adviser a program of study for the rest of his college course. This plan will then be discussed with his adviser, with a view to its coherence as a whole, to the young man's interest and capacity, his strong and weak points, his private reading, his future occupation, and the way in which his different subjects...
...second crew. Last year Withington rowed 5 on the University crew. For the first few weeks of the spring practice he rowed at number 4 but, for the past month, he has been out of the boat directing spring football practice. He will be available during the rest of the season and will probably row in the Cornell and Yale races...
...Advocate should contain so many ideas of immediate significance to Harvard men; but it should be remembered that ideas can be conveyed in fiction as well as in the essay. And the editorials, of which one is inaccurate and the others add little to the material contained in the rest of the number, might easily be strengthened. But from the worst sin of a college paper--that of lack of ideas--this number of the Advocate is notably free; and now it only remains for the paper to make its stories and editorials as good as its essays...