Word: wording
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...signed statement that he had never received any payment whatever for instruction in physical exercise or for coaching a school boy team. At that time it was not known to the committee, or suggested to them that he had received money for giving private lessons in boxing, and his word that he had never received a cent which would in any way impugn his amateur standing was accepted. The part of our rule under which the decision was rendered reads as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest who shall have taught...
...word "truth" has a meaning in every day use among men of all sorts, sincerity, frank speech, straightforward conduct, the absence of deceit. Truth is the motto of him "whose armor is his honest thought, and simple truth his highest skill." This kind of truth, however, is not the special virtue of the student or of the scholar, and has no more connection with the University than with life elsewhere. Yet thought rather than action is our object here, and so "truth" may be our peculiar motto. The man in public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements...
...Class of 1740, and the occasion was notable as being the first when the academic atmosphere of Harvard was thrilled with the spirit of the coming revolution. The College on that day had made its choice between the king and the people, and in all the ceremonies not a word was said of the king, whom the governor represented...
...living in private houses can have the Committee's collection wagon call on Saturday morning by sending word to L. D. Chapin, 5 Linden street...
...other articles in the issue,--"A Convert," a story based on the Yale Bicentennial, "Another Word for Robert Louis Stevenson," by George C. Hirst, and "Autumn" and "Ambria's Thanks-giving," poems by Lauriston Ward and R. M. Green,--are all exceedingly good...