Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference, as the statistics from the Law School show, what a man studies, but how he studies it. And for real grasp of the life he must live, a man must not only know as nearly as possible something about everything, but as nearly as possible everything about something
...ready to establish did not always end with social courtless. Generous in deed as he was in word and thought, he gave without stint, now, perhaps, a contribution of money to a friend in need, now a book from his library, now time and friendly counsel, offered to show appreciation and sympathy or to meet distress. This sense of kindliness was thoroughgoing. He had made it a principle, so he told me, to abstain from unfavorable personal criticism unless called for by some need. It was a rare event to hear him pass an unfriendly judgment, and he disliked...
...CRIMSON." We do not doubt the sincerity of the committee in question, and our reason for stating that the list of nominees which it submitted was not the most representative possible was, first, because we believed this to be the case, and, second, because we wished to show the necessity of a provision for nomination by petition in the constitution The concluding statement to the effect that, provided the Council be formed, "the power will not be lacking" is, in view of the powers specifically granted by the new constitution and in view of past experience, too indefinite and unsupported...
...whole was hard fought throughout, and both teams played clean but rough football. Contrary to expectation, very little new football was displayed, Yale not once attempting a forward pass or an onside kick, while Harvard with two exceptions was unsuccessful with the open play. For Harvard Wendell showed up far ahead of any of his team-mates. In addition to being the most consistent ground-gainer and the hardest man on the field to stop, he was ever alert on the defence and backed up the line in faultless fashion. Except for his fumbling Corbett played his usual dashing game...
...Williams game the University team had its first opportunity to show its strength. The line was impenetrable and the backfield displayed its ground-gaining ability by scoring 21 points. The following Saturday the University team defeated Amherst by the decisive score of 17 to 0, in a game characterized by long punts and noticeable absence of the new style of play. During the first five minutes of the game the University team's line was put on the defensive inside its 5-yard line for the first time this season. Three attempts by Amherst to gain were unavailing, and Corbett...