Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been printed in the newspapers from coast to coast about the relative merits of eastern and western football elevens. In these accounts Harvard's strength has been rated high enough to give any reader the impression that to win the football championship of the east we have only to trust to the ability of several individuals who were on the team last year. The CRIMSON believes that the thinking undergraduate will immediately discard these "doped" press statements as valueless and accede to the following truths which must be realized about the Harvard football situation...
...form of the Monthly is a pleasant surprise. The cover is much improved both in color and design. The narrower page and the heavier titles are more pleasing to the eye. I trust the editors will make this their permanent form.FREDERIC D. WERSTER
There is encouragement for American scholarship in the recently published annual report of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. American Rhodes scholars at Oxford last year took five first honors in jurisprudence, and captured nine university prizes, among which were the Matthew Arnold prize for an English essay and the Oldham prize for a classical essay. In the classics in general their showing was less good than in other subjects. Outside the field of scholarship, they have done well in athletics, and--strangely enough--an American has been chosen for the first time to the presidency of the Union, which is regarded...
...annual report of the Rhodes scholarship trust, which has just been issued, contains a statement giving the young American Rhodes scholars at Oxford credit for filling well an important place in the life and work of the ancient university. There are 175 scholarship holders, about one-fourteenth of the whole student body, a number that offers abundant opportunity for influence on both sides...
Although it is acknowledged that there are good points in the pending legislation, yet, considering the fact that the so-called "trust evil" is far smaller than it was ten years ago, we can well afford to rely wholly on the present laws, and devote the attention of our legislators not to additions thereto, but to the means of more thoroughly carrying them...