Word: backs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...diplomatic representatives from this country to important posts in Europe at the outbreak of the war had had the slightest diplomatic experience previous to their appointments. In sharp contrast to this state of affairs, the consuls and ministers from Great Britain and France filling similar positions had back of them an average record of twenty years, diplomatic experience...
...This fall we found that 37.2 per cent of the Freshmen wore glasses. In other words, the enlightened part of the public who send their boys to Harvard College may be considered as appreciating fully the dangers of ocular defects and this appreciation has extended at least as far back as 1914. In 1914, 43.5 per cent of the Freshmen had had some operation upon their nose or throat. In 1919, 43.6 per cent of the Freshmen had had their tonsils removed, and a certain further per cent, rather trifling, had only had an operation upon the nose and throat...
...whose bodily mechanics are commendable, while C and D are less satisfactory. The process points which we noted are as follows: Group A; Good Mechanical Use of the Human Body. 1. Head straight above chest, hips and feet. 2. Chest up and forward. 3. Abdomen in or flat. 4. Back usual curves not exaggerated. Group B; Fairly Good Mechanical Use of the Human Body. 1. Head too far forward. 2. Chest not so well up or forward. 3. Abdomen very little change. 4. Back very little change. Group C; Bad Mechanical Use of the Body. 1. Head forward of chest...
...carpers at Harvard's football schedule this year will have to take a back seat now that the schedules of the spring sports have been published. The talk of "olderdown" games will have to be a relic of the past, for contests have been arranged with some of the best teams of the East, not to speak of long southern trips to Annapolis and Charlottesville for the baseball team, Washington and Norfolk for the tennis team, and matches at Cornell for the crew and the lacrosse team...
...system of training the Government would come into contact with men of every class in the country. And to the boys who have no opportunity for education, to the mountaineers of Kentucky and Tennessee, a chance would be given. In almost no other way can the men in the back country of those states and others ever receive any advancement. For six months they would receive instruction for the mind and the body and associate with college men. The fear of a spirit of Prussianism growing out of such a system is unfounded. A broader, more educated democracy would result...