Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first place, Freshmen, you are now free lances in a small world where there is nothing but your own ideals and will to bring you up. You have been dumped into a new system of education and must strain every power to stand with self-control the test of freedom. It takes a strong personality to weather the storms which are coming, but, once through unscathed, you have won the battle for success at Harvard. Cling to your ideals, though they seem but straws, and, if they are high ideals, you are safe...
...meeting held July 30, the intercollegiate football rules committee made but few changes in the regulations governing the game, the majority of alterations being technical with little real effect. The most momentous change is the rule permitting the kicker to stand at any distance from the line of scrimmage when kicking, instead of at least five yards in the rear of the line. Under this regulation, it is expected that quick kicking from directly behind the forwards will be a feature of the coming season...
...willing to do what is "au fait" but few of us have the moral courage to do a thing unless it is strictly conventional. Here is the chance for the fortunate ones with that courage and the personality to back it to conventionalize attendance at Chapel until it can stand alone...
...much smaller than that of New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, or California, the four states having the next largest representation. In other words, the men from a distance figure more largely than those from the immediate vicinity and the man from Missouri, to quote a concrete instance, seems to stand three times as good a chance of being prominent as the man from Massachusetts. This would seem to explode the theory that a man must come from Massachusetts to attain prominence at Harvard...
...field events, which were held in the Baseball Cage, R. H. Hitchcock of Exeter and H. Reed of Manchester High tieing for first place at 11 feet, 5 7-8 inches. Hitchcock cleared 11 feet, 8 1-2 inches on the jump-off, but this was not allowed to stand as a record...