Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...private school graduates; in sharp contrast, have never gone through any sifting process. Of course they have been subject to examinations like all schoolboys everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...
...meeting will be open to the members of the Speakers' Club and their friends, and to all past and present members of Public Speaking 4. All are urged to be prompt, as the doors will be closed at 8 o'clock sharp, and will not be reopened until the end of the reading of the first...
...twenty-second annual interscholastic lawn tennis championship in singles will be held on Jarvis Field on Saturday, May 11, and Monday, May 13. All contestants must report to the Secretary at Jarvis Field at 9 o'clock sharp on May 11, and at 2.30 o'clock on other days, or be defaulted. The entrance fee is $1 for each person and $5 for each school. Entries, which must be accompanied by annual dues and entrance fees, will close at 6 o'clock on Friday, May 10. No player will be allowed to compete in more than one interscholastic tournament previous...
...Harvard Woodrow Wilson Club, headed by a brass band, will lead a torchlight procession to Boston, to attend the Wilson rally at Tremont Temple this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Governor Wilson will speak. The parade will form in Harvard square at 6.15 o'clock sharp, and march to Central square, where it will take the Subway to Boston. Special seats will be reserved on the platform for those who take part in the parade. All members of the University are invited to join the procession...
...Hard Guys" and the "Arterial Artilleries" will play the last game in the round-robin tournament of the scrub hockey series this afternoon in the Boston Arena at 5 o'clock sharp. All must be there ready to play punctually. The time of the championship match between the winner of this game and the "Little Jeffs" will be announced later...