Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still be our weakness now. The great army of the unwed which wins its victories by conscientiously filling the stomachs of others may well take heart, for though the Senior may be sitting and thinking, and dreaming of finals to be, the Freshman, far from being warned by his lot, is ever ready to learn from any tidy live heathen that turns up. And while the hardy perennials at Radcliffe seem to be attracting Harvard horticulturists in increasing numbers, there...
...Chief Justice (William Howard Taft) had returned to Washington early, after a frolicsome 71st birthday (with eleven grandchildren) at his summer lodge at Murray Bay, Quebec. Prior to convening his eight Supreme colleagues, he held a three-day conference with the senior judges of the U. S. Circuit Court. He informed President Coolidge that five additional Federal judges should be benched in Manhattan and Brooklyn to cope with the mounting arrears of Prohibition and tax cases...
Putnam is at present the leading candidate for the pilot position. He prepared for college at Milton where he directed the team in his senior year. Coming to Harvard with an excellent reputation to uphold, he fully lived up to expectations by capably piloting his team throughout the season. In addition to filling the quarterback post, he was the high scorer of the team, counting in five games four touchdowns and one field goal. In his Sophomore year Putnam began the season in suspicious fashion. His wise selection of plays combined with a certain degree of daring were largely responsible...
...Beta Kappa. Abolish the Junior eight. Elect eight men in the Senior year, and then elect no more till honors are announced, when all men who get magna or summa degrees should be picked. This method will eliminate to some extent the too great proportion of 'grinds' in the Phi Bete, and replace them by men who are capable of thinking as well as of 'grinding.' It will thus increase the prestige of the society and in this way further scholarship among the student body...
...boxing glove, ten thousand miles away, instances of distinguished courage among the educated are growing many. But each of these heroes has his audience, and can forget the sordidness of it all in the bitter-sweet taste of his own exhibitionism. What comfort can be given to the Senior, unfortunate in possessing emotional and romantic nerve centers that were too near the surface, took his room in the more quadrangled section of the Yard...