Word: shine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There can be no doubt that we live in what the late Samuel Clemens has named "The Gilded Age." The pilgrim to Boston beholds from afar the shining dome of the State House. The lobbies of our caravanseries out-shine Solomon in all his splendor. But at times there comes a feeling that perhaps the thing is a trifle overdone. The undergraduate departed last summer, thanking Providence and the benefactors of the University that at last the Charles was spanned by a suitable structure. He returns to find it giving the appearance of a martial host about to sweep down...
...general finish seeks help elsewhere. Amid random shots at present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities. It seems as if the undergraduate must be brought to know...
Mile run.--Harvard 1915: B. S. Carter, B. Hoar, H. Lider, H. G. MacLure, C. E. Morris, I. L. Reycroft, M. P. Robinson, E. P. Shine, B. V. Zamore. Yale 1915: Clark, Frost, Hamblin, Hazard, Lesure, Plimpton, Smith...
There is nothing about which to be discouraged in our government. Anything looks black when you hold it up against the blazing light of Utopia; but it will look only marred if held where that light will shine upon it. Take for instance the impregnable jungle of our protective tariff. Hold it in the light and see the little demons curled up in its snarled roots and branches. There will be seen little devils of deceit and special privilege, introduced into the tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol...
This evening the 1914 team will play another practice game with the Crescent Hockey Club in preparation for their game with St. Paul's on Saturday. The line-ups: 1914. BRAE BURN. Hopkins, l.e. r.e., Marston Adams, Hanson, l.c. r.c., Shine Sortwell, r.c. l.c., Hickey Williams, Devereux, r.e. l.e., O'Hearn Wingate, c.p. c.p., Heron Willetts, p. p., Penhallow Carnochan, g. g., Bray...