Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football field, his qualifications as a sports writer are based upon his ability as an amateur hockey player and the possession of a W.O. McGeehanesque acepticism. As a hockey player, Mr. Lynch was one of Boston's best amateur puck-stoppers and this position naturally gave him a detached view of the game that was bound to make him a student of the ice sport. Though still an undergraduate, the rotund Hearst man is already the Boston American's hockey expert and as such he "does", besides his Harvard sports, all the professional hockey games in Boston. His prowess...
W.F.C. Guest, Yale '27,: Overemphasis in studies is the main fault in my opinion. There is too serious a view of life at Harvard which detracts especially from the quality of the football team...
...This view, it seems, must necessitate an aesthetic judgement of truth--a feeling of harmony and unity. Unfortunately Mr. Dieffenbach's book does not contain the aesthetic requirements to be demanded from a book setting forth such views. The style is appalling. How does one think 'long, long thoughts,' and what appeal, if any, have puissant moral dynamics? Heaven defend us from such things. The cover of the book is blue and the print is large...
...very different direction. For it is quite as it should be, that on ordinary days he should busy himself in plucking, as he remarked earlier in the year, the flowers which might else blush unseen but by a few in the "Announcement of Courses of instruction". With this in view he has with few exceptions up to the present, been active upon his roller-skates which were given him by an anonymous benefactor in the pursuit of knowledge from New Lecture Hall to the marble grandure of Widener, from the hallowed dimness of Emerson to the fastnesses of Fogg...
...have what the opponents of the further progress of the plan call "responsibility without authority." And the fact that President Coolidge has yet to consult anyone connected with the Wood administration over the appointment of a new governor-general is regarded as significant of a changed executive point of view...