Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class Memorial Scholarship, is by a large margin the largest scholarship given any Freshman. The dividing of the sum into two scholarships has been advocated, but this, it was thought, would defeat the purpose of the gift, which is meant to be desirable not only for the sake of the money but for the honor that goes with...
Among the pieces of advice gratuitously showered on the undergraduate none is more often repeated than that which urges him to select certain courses, regardless of their intrinsic value in his scheme of education, for the sake of listening to some particularly famous member of the Harvard Faculty. If he does so, and does not take the trouble to gain a personal acquaintance with his professor he is failing in half his avowed purpose. Relations of this sort often prove of more value than the actual work of the courses, and by being continued in after life may become...
...seems to recommend this criticism as worthy of consideration on the part of the undergraduates and the Athletic Committee. The increasing tendency of college athletics is more and more towards the calculating, efficient ideal of modern business, and away from the recreative standard of true sport for sport's sake. The adoption of a progressive suggestion may mean a certain amount of sacrifice, but it is well worth while when the step tends towards better sportsmanship...
...then, do our best to render them just honor and homage." Surely, if our country were engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the Central Powers, this fact could scarcely be more distinctly applied, nor could the supreme merit attaching to every possible sacrifice entailed for the sake of crushing these adversaries be more emphatically heralded, than in this editorial comment of Harvard's leading student publication! K. G. DARLING...
...Fitch '00 urged the men, for the sake of their parents and the men whom they represent--the men who have not a chance like theirs--to make the most of the opportunities offered in college. Dr. Fitch said, "You represent the parents who have toiled that you may be here; the men and boys who, unable to come to the college, are working now; and you represent those boys who have laid down their lives in heroism on the other hemisphere...