Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...death of Professor Charles Gross ends twenty-one years of steadfast devotion to Harvard University. His labor was unremitting even in illness, when his great fortitude banished discouragement and inspired him to continue his splendid service. Thorough as was his scholarship, his genius was by no means purely academic. As a writer, he achieved fame in no mean degree; as an editor of important histories, his work was of immeasurable value; as a teacher he was admired and respected. His name stands high on the long list of men who have brought honor to Harvard...
Following this, J. E. Waid '10, captain of the University crew, spoke briefly on the splendid spirit shown by the Thayer crew this fall...
Surely it would be but justice to his memory for the University to maintain some simple ceremony which should recall each November the life of the obscure clergy man, who, dying early in life, left here the foundation of such a splendid monument. The decoration each year by the Memorial Society of the statue near Memorial Hall is a graceful act, but a notice of John Harvard's birthday in the services maintained by the University would be an official recognition which the significance of the day in this community seems to demand...
...second half of the game last Saturday the team showed that it can play winning football even without Captain Fish. A year ago when Burr was kept out of the Yale game by an injury, the team played with a splendid spirit of determination that more than overcame the handicap. So tomorrow, if the team is complied to play without its captain, it may still be expected to play its hardest, and if it wins under such conditions then all the more credit...
...have a splendid group of candidates. If we all vote, whatever the weather may be, whatever the inconvenience, no one will seriously regret the outcome. Let us omit all indifference and try to set a record of votes cast, which will be pointed to as an example for future classes...