Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that they have left no memorial. You are their memorial, and your lives in the next fifty years are to remind men of these unnamed benefactors. They shall remind you of men who desired the true nature of Godliness and Christianity, who knew the necessity and excellency of serious religion which shall subject all worldly respects unto these high and glorious ends. They have attempted, as Edward Hopkins says, to give some encouragement for the bringing up of hopeful youth in the way of learning for the public service of the country in future times...
...these parts in large measure that the class is judged by the outside world. The Poet reads a heroic part of considerable length, the Odist composes the words sung by the class to the air of "Fair Harvard" and the Orator and Ivy Orator deliver the respectively serious and witty parting words to their classmates. The position of Chorister, owing to the lightness of its duties, has become mainly honorary...
...loss of Knowlton at tackle and A. Marshall at guard, will prove serious. Derby played aggressively in the Yale game this fall, but his lack of weight will be a serious handicap. B. H. Squires '06, R. H. Oveson '05, and W. Z. Carr '06, are possibilities for the position. It is doubtful whether W. L. Mercer 2M., will be able to play again, as he was severely injured in the early part of the season...
...gave an interesting and well-rendered concert before an enthusiastic audience. "The Stadium," a march by J. W. Johnston '05, and selections from "The Mocking Bird," were particularly well received. The program was composed entirely of popular music, Massenet's "Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge," being the most serious composition rendered. As encores, the orchestra played "Men of Harvard," by F. H. Grey '06, and "Veritas," by J. Densmore...
...slang, and if most of what he has to say of William Watson's poetry is fairly obvious, it is at least clearly thought out. W. A. Green's "The Versatile Mr. Kipling," is less satisfactory. He is guilty of saying that "in 'Gentleman Rankers' there is a more serious turn of finality" than in "the whimsically pathetic protest of 'Tommy'." If the Monthly had had a style book. Mr. Green would have been forced to tell us what he really meant. Now we shall never know...