Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would-be academy of the Protestants in all America, but we found ourselves mistaken. In approaching the house we neither heard nor saw any- thing mentionable; but, going to the other side of the building; we heard noise enough in an upper room to lead my comrade to say: "I believe they are engaged in disputation.' We entered and went upstairs, when a person met us and requested us to walk in, which we did. We found there eight or ten young, fellows, sitting around, smoking tobacco, with the smoke of which the room was so full that you could...
...differ from year to year, we reply that it is true, but we repeat that the evidence so ably compiled is sufficient to make us fearful. We cannot get around the fact that Yale would tie or lose a dozen other games to win from Harvard; nor can we say that Harvard would not do the same to win from Yale. Our football hopes are centered on that contest, there is no denying it. The CRIMSON is behind the team as it never was before and believes that the same thing may be said of the entire College...
...platitude to say that the art of adequately expressing one's ideas is a tool invaluable in every walk and profession of life. Frequently, however, it is forgotten that this tool is in many of its adaptations very different in form from what it is in others. The prose of the business man differs from that of the scientist, and again from that of the political writer. And it is virtually impossible as well as superfluous to a great extent for any one student to master all forms...
...late Dr. R. H. Fitz as "that incomparable clinician." The remark denotes a reputation that was international. And deservedly so. In their general outline, the scientific achievements of Dr. Fitz are fairly well known. He gave its name to the disorder we now know as "appendicitis," and, so to say, brought the fight against it into the open...
...remarkable degree, the faculty of fertilizing other minds--his pupils, for example, in honor of his retirement in 1908, published a volume of scientific studies dedicated to him as the inspirer of them. In the lecture room he radiated vitality; he always seemed to have more to say than could be crammed into an hour, and sometimes the lecture would begin before he entered the room--the class heard his voice as he came towards the open door...