Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enter the newspaper field. They will be trained to see things as they are and to write of things as they are. The world has need, and always will have need, of men with those qualifications. The competitors who lose need not feel that they have labored in vain. They, too, will have received instruction that may some day prove valuable. Merely to have been in such a contest is worth while if for no other reason than that it is good for every man to be tested and put on his mettle
...hockey team easily defeated the Middlesex skaters yesterday afternoon by the score of 5-0. All through the game the Crimson players out-manoeuvered the visitors, though the latter made several vain attempts to break through the yearling's defense. The Concord team relied mainly on the individual playing of Pratt and Bailey, who furnished the greatest opposition to the yearling stickmen, while the strength of the latter rested on a well organized sextet. Austin did not show the speed and accuracy that he exhibited in the Dartmouth Freshman game, but the rest of the team showed up well...
...which the people will not have, and that it will be necessary to repeal the amendment? There are many who think so, but in view of the way in which prohibition swept the country, with an almost unanimous ratification by the States, it should be evident that it is vain to talk about repeal at least at the present time. Forty-five of the forty-eight States ratified the amendment. Is there any reason to suppose that more than a dozen of them, at the outside, would ratify a repeal amendment? There is none. Two courses only remain: (1) First...
Dean West says the right thing about the elective system. Indeed. the old free and easy days of that are gone. Vain, mostly, is the search for "soft snaps"; and the elective studies are now grouped together at Harvard, for instance into a "coherent body of knowledge," as the Dean advises. With that condition precedent, it should follow that a man will do best in studies he likes best...
...Holy Cross game yesterday there was segregation--the Harvard stands were packed. There was plenty of individual support. But in the ninth inning when the team needed more than the intermittent encouragement of individual players the stands shouted in vain for some one to lead cheers...