Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applicants were represented in the hearing by Mr. Stoughton Bell '96, of the firm of Putnam; Putnam and Bell, of Boston. The Board of Registrars decided that in all of the cases except four, the ground of complaint was not established and refused to strike the names of the applicants from the voting list. The four who have been dropped are R. M. Jopling 1G., S. T. Williamson '17, D. H. Whittemore '17 and S. W. Morgan...
Careless, carefree students can not grasp in an instant the full significance of war. It took a year for the lesson to strike home to the University of Toronto. Now the students are exhibiting a firm but quiet patriotism of the highest order. War has become real to them and made their response to duty ready. If Harvard were in the same situation it would respond in the same...
...importance to us of preventing wars elsewhere; of using our own preparedness as part of a larger plan of policing the whole world; and of preventing so far as possible the starting of a conflagration which may set us afire, however small our connection with the people who strike the match, and our direct interest in the questions that caused them to do so. To the prepara- tionists, therefore, the suggestion of a league to enforce peace ought to appeal as a means of doing on an international scale the thing they are seeking to do for the United States...
...educated; he is only a college pass man." These words from one of Shaw's plays should strike a chord of profitable reflection in those who consider C a sufficient "gentleman's mark." At least one of the things for which most men come to college is, presumably, to acquire what is known as an education. No collegian would like to be obliged to carry his diploma about with him to prove that he really has a college degree. Most men have the desire for an education, even if not the will to acquire...
...difficulty in knocking him all over the field and scampering around the bases with great freedom. When Harrison did manage to keep his opponents from safe hitting his support usually went up in the air. In these four fateful innings only one Huntington man fanned the air for a strike-out. R. Hitchcock '18 who finished the game in the box retired eight men and allowed not a run. His pitching was consistently good and he kept his opponents puzzled to the end. Ziegler, the Huntington twirler, did well throughout the game, showing particularly good form in tight places...