Word: sound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent issue of the London Times summarizes the report of the trustees of the Rhodes Scholarship Foundation. Together with the statement that the grade of scholarship as shown by Rhodes scholars is not brilliant, although sound, the most interesting portion is an analysis of the occupations to which the scholars have returned after leaving Oxford. Out of about 250 men who had left Oxford up to 1910, eighty-four have given themselves to educational work and sixty-six to law. Doubtless many of the latter group may enter public life, which Mr. Rhodes perhaps anticipated as a probable...
...railroading" scheme under the old system required only three or four intelligent "spell-binders," backed by as few as 50 voters well trained in concerted cheering. Time and again the many, who could know very little of the respective candidates' merits, were won over merely by the volume of sound raised as each nominee's name was called. We venture to say that more than one class split can be traced directly to what seems to us now a very faulty system of Freshman elections...
...outclassed Princeton. Hence, Harvard stock, so to speak, rises accordingly, Yale declines, and all goes merrily--until next Saturday. Then the crash comes and we must wait for another chance, when we shall, of course, profit by past experiences and not be so confident. Does not such a story sound familiar in Harvard football annals of the past? It is time that this almost annual gloom were dispelled for good...
...cruising race between the Harvard and Yale Corinthian Yacht Clubs was held in Long Island Sound on July 1, under the auspices of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club. The course extended from Bartlett's Reef Lightship, off New London, to the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club float in Oyster Bay, a distance of 71 1-2 nautical miles. The only entry from the Yale club was the "Edjacco." The boats entered by the Harvard Yacht Club together with their owners were as follows: "Phryne," J. S. Morgan '14; "Dahinda," P. J. Roosevelt '13; "Janet," J. Peabody '06; "Opal...
...start was made at about 11.30 P. M., with the Phryne and the Dahinda taking the lead. On the tack toward the Long Island shore, the Phryne gained a slight lead. At about 2.30 o'clock both took a long board out into the sound again. At a point between Faulkner's Island and the Cornfield Point Lightship, the Edjacco crossed their bows. As the Phryne and the Dahinda tacked towards Long Island again, a shift of the wind enabled them to take the lead over the Edjacco. The latter was also passed by the Janet. This tack carried...