Word: retrospections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeated Princeton by a scan three points, there were few who would have predicted that Harvard would wait seven years for a chance to celebrate another victory over the Tigers. But seven years made the victory on Saturday all the more magnificent; no words written in quiet retrospect can add luster to such a triumph. But every Harvard man who saw the game will long treasure the picture of a splendid eleven fighting as the under dog, outplaying itself, deter mined to accept nothing but victory" and in the end winning that success which every Harvard man demanded...
...first act easily justifies the production of the play. Ten scenes are shown. They pass so quickly and so smoothly from one small alcove on the darkened stage to another that even the mechanics of Johannes Kreisler creak dismally in retrospect...
...classical requirement looks very much like the study of geography finished in the fifth grade at grammar school. He appreciates its importance, but sighs with relief to think that he finished with it before the war changed all the maps. Latin and Greek are very much appreciated,--in retrospect; but whether this appreciation should or should not be stimulated by official requirements is still an open question. Perhaps the best solution is the University's method of dividing the sheep from the goats by requiring entrance Latin for an A.B., but not for an almost similar college career ending...
...Just what am I proving here?" From this he argues that after all, the superiority of the college man is greatly over-rated. Life in the world calls to him and, like a horse restless to begin the race, he becomes impatient. At this period the student looks in retrospect over his first two years as an undergraduate, seeing in them either a failure to make of himself what school-day ambition carved or a disillusionment regarding the value of his activities, social or athletic. At this period, too, the Sophomore feels that it is time to "find himself...
...CRIMSON a few days ago surmised would happen a "comparatively unheralded candidate" emerged victorious from the welter of the convention. In retrospect it is easy to see how carefully the "coup" was planned, how the popular favorites were played off against each other to the point of exhaustion, how the well-coached dark horse was jockeyed into position in the intermediate ballots, and how he broke away for an overwhelming victory at the finish. The results of the convention reveal not only the inefficiency of the popular primaries, but also the total inefficiency of popular sentiment in affecting...