Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tired of hearing the expression that luck was against Harvard. What these men should realize is the true seriousness of the situation. The coming season will indeed present a golden opportunity but it will also be a crucial one for the present administration, as the games now stand at a tie. In looking over the history of the Harvard-Princeton games also, we find that the University has had only one victory to its credit as far back as 1887. Here again a golden opportunity presents itself...
...meetings, business meetings, committee meetings, editorial meetings, football rallies, baseball rallies, pyjama rallies, vicarious athletics on the bleachers, garrulous athletics in dining room and parlor and on the porch, rehearsals of the glee club, rehearsals of the mandolin club and of the banjo, rehearsals for dramatics (a word to stand the hair on end), college dances and class banquets, fraternity dances and suppers, preparations for the dances and banquets, more committees for the preparations; a running up and down the campus for ephemeral items for ephemeral articles in ephemeral papers, a soliciting of advertisements, a running up and down...
...sorrow, great in his elevated personality, great in his admiration for his University, great in his patriotism, great in his ideas as to the destiny of our race, great in his influence for good, like the genial and vivifying rain from heaven. We know that 'Nature might stand up and say to all the world: This...
...feet, 2 1-4 inches held by G. R. Fearing, Jr., '93, and the world's indoor high jump record of 6 feet, 3 1-2 inches held by M. F. Sweeney. Lawrence's jump, although measured accurately by a tape that was afterwards verified, will not stand as a record, as it was not made in actual competition in a meet...
...compiled from other books and therefore give expression to theories and supposed facts which are really obsolete truths. They are deliberate thoughts and cannot be asked questions. Yet even in consulting men there is the constant danger that they, too, are not alive to the facts as they really stand. So the research student, if he expects to carry on his work successfully, must himself have formed imaginative ideas of what he is going to find drawn from the study of local conditions. He must have questions ready, in order to draw forth the facts which really exist...