Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cambridge Boat Club and always ending in a serious fall over the puck, the fiendish body-checking of Captain Batchelder, or the unapproachable rushes of Baker, suspected by the Lampoon to be "H.A.H." in disguise, were to insult the other members of the team. Suffice it to say that it was Baker, unhindered by the funny tired men, unaided, and unsupported who scored the winning and only goal, with the greatest of skill picking for his shot the four inches left open by the feet of Makepeace...
...uncommon to hear a man in his third or fourth year at Harvard say that he has never spoken so much as a word to some of his professors. Such cases are often cited as examples of the traditional. Harvard in-difference and are received with horror by those unfamiliar with conditions in a modern university. It is a misconception to take such statements as indicative of an impassible breach between the students and the Faculty, for the only courses in which a man may fall to come into contact with a professor are those large elementary lecture courses which...
...have read with much pleasure the announcement of a series of lectures by Mr. Rabindranath Tagore. I take this occasion to say a few words about his position in modern Indian life...
...which has been in existence only a couple of weeks, should feel called upon to upset a plan endorsed by the officers of the Federation of which it is a member, and already enthusiastically adopted by a number of the leading clubs of the Federation, I am unable to say. I do desire to state that the Union has undertaken this idea at no small expense and from no desire for financial gains: it has a membership ample to cover expenses and a large reserve fund in addition. But the Governing Board believes that the Union should...
...economics or the application of economic theory and in which he can obtain the information and instruction which he has failed to receive in the classroom. If it is true that our wits are sharpened and our faculties aroused by contact with our fellows, then it is needles to say that such an undergraduate society, filling the part of a forum for discussion and debate, would prove of no small value in raising the standard of scholarship in undergraduate courses in economics...