Word: straightforward
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...reconsidered their vote in regard to the theatrical and musical organizations of the sophomore and freshmen classes and have voted to omit that part relating to the musical organizations. According to this last vote theatrical performances are forbidden but the musical performances are not interfered with. This shows a straightforward and fair view of the matter on the part of the Faculty and we are glad that they have recognized that the Freshman Musical Clubs are organizations of sufficient merit and usefulness to exist. The clubs, then, are put where they were before, subject, as usual, in point of public...
...Hampden Park, Springfield, on Saturday by a score of 6 to 0. It was a magnificent game from start to finish and with the defeat comes the feeling of pride in the eleven which represented the college so nobly. Nothing but praise is heard for the honorable, scientific, straightforward game which the eleven put up. Considered in comparison with the games of the season it stands in striking contrast, while the work of the coaches during the past ten days has shown that Harvard has at last found graduates among her ranks, who are in every way men, to whom...
...Fair Exchange" is a jolly bit of writing and very well worked up. It is as brief and straightforward as it well could be and is assuredly delightful. It is really quite funny and as one thinks it over, one can not help laughing...
...when one looks over the early numbers of the Advocate and compares them with those of the present year one cannot help feeling that the style of the modern numbers is more artificial, than that of the earlier ones, and lacks some of the force that lies in the straightforward simplicity of the contribution of the last generation...
There are few of the men in college that were in Cambridge at this time last year who have forgotten the sad news that met them on their return to work, - the announcement of the death of Adelbert Shaw '94. Those who knew him will always remember that earnest, straightforward character which made him so much esteemed by all the college in the few months he was with us. To the younger classes who come here too late to know him, his name will be handed down as that of a man who, though difficulties stood in his path, fought...