Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Revolution is not an epoch-making event, and while acknowledging its retarding effects upon the progress of civilization, he emphasized the far-reaching result of such an important and hitherto unknown political experiment. The French Revolution in history is what the "Republic" of Plato is in the world of thought...
...withdrew from the squad most reluctantly and only after careful thought and considerate advice as to my future physical welfare. Just how much that decision cost me, and how dearly I prized this--my only opportunity of making good on the famous Harvard University squad--are points not material to this discussion...
This gift has a peculiar interest as Miss Peck's grandfather, Professor William D. Peck. A.B. 1782, was first "Massachusetts Professor of Natural History" in Harvard College (1805-1822), and her father, Dr. William D. Peck, was A.B. 1833 and M.D. 1836. For this reason Miss Peck thought it appropriate that the collection should come to Harvard College...
Captain Parker was the other speaker. He said that he thought the cheering, though organized, should be spontaneous. When the team comes, on the field, between the halves, and after a touchdown or after a brilliant play, were the proper times to cheer. The team, he said, was wonderfully encouraged and sustained by such cheering. In his opinion, the coaching this year is as good as Harvard has ever had Captain Parker referred to the so-called annual slump. He explained it by saying that it was not a slump, but merely a period in which the men were individually...
...defend. In "The Poet who Dies Young," Van Wyck Brooks makes a plea against materialism. Compared with Mr. Brook's writing of last year, this retains the valuable part of his subtlety and delicacy of expression, and shows a desirable gain in clearness of outline and definition of thought, even if the style is not yet quite natural. J. L. Warren's the Crush" is somewhat conventional; F. Schenck's "The Pall of the Wild" is cleverly named, and, like R. M. Arkush's "Sleep Fifteen Minutes after Luncheon," strikes one as much truer to Sophomore human nature than...