Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fence of indecision over their future occupations. What these men have said comes as a surprise to the many of us who have not known exactly what the Business School was doing. We have heard rumors now and then that it was giving its men a splendid training and, last year, we heard a somewhat vague story of the training of secretaries for Chambers of Commerce. But until this morning we had no definite idea of this further extension of Harvard's work to practical problems. The distribution of a Harvard System of Accounts for Shoe Retailers was a long...
...spoke of the admiration that he felt for the American youth,--his physical prowess, his mentality, and his splendid athletic games. "And I consider it a great honor," he said, "to be received among you, the founders of whose University have so inseparably joined it with the older institutions of Europe. I only wish that relations between Paris and Cambridge might be more extensive, not only that you should have intercommunications with the Sorbonne, but that we might exchange representatives...
...thing we should like to hear at the Stadium this afternoon: namely, more frequent cheers of the same loud and spirited sort as we had last week. Several men who were on the field and side lines last Saturday have remarked that the cheering was splendid as far as it went and that it promised well for the big games. They ask for just a little more of it, and we are sure that a word to the cheer leaders in enough...
...seconds. The third mile was covered in 5 minutes flat. At the three-mile flag the stroke was again raised a point and at the three and a half mile mark it was sent up to 34, gradually working up to about 37. This last mile was a splendid exhibition of rowing and was covered in slightly less than 5 minutes. Pirnie has been obliged to leave the squad, suffering from an attack of boils
...three four oar crews had a half-mile brush in which the first four defeated the other who by a few feet in a splendid finish...