Word: earning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...both teams in a ball game. Therefore the slogan of all right-minded partisans is, "Kill the umpire," on all available occasions. But consider the life of an umpire. Nobody loves him, and no matter what he says, he hurts somebody's feelings. He is there to earn his living as competently as he can, and he is not eaten with hatred for anybody. What is the use of futile demonstrations against his decisions? The stands may well follow the example of the members of the team in contrast to some of our more hot-headed opponents...
...reading the article in the CRIMSON on "Illiterate Collegians" you ask "Who is to blame?" Allow me to write and even if I am a poor ignorant woman that left school in the sixth grade of the "Grammar School" to earn my own living so please pardon my ignorance. Before my son went to Harvard I have heard several times of young men that did not make good, that in some cases Harvard turns out "educated fools." Well, I worked hard for twenty years to send my son to Harvard feeling that where I had nothing in the line...
...candidates with the exception of a few picked men will be drawn up in regular tournament form. These picked men will then be seeded through the tournament so that they will not meet each other in the early rounds. By defeating one of these picked men a candidate may earn the right to play with them in a round robin series from which the final selections will be made. In order to take charge of these trials Captain Williams will not enter the series. The following men will constitute the University squad for the time being: G. C. Caner...
...schools and for the parents of all boys who expect to go to college. President Lowell does not ask for an increase in the number of infant prodigies. He does not level criticism at the man who must work until he is twenty or more before entering college, to earn the money to pay his college bills. But he does criticise, the man who dawdles along in preparatory school and who enters college at an age when he should be graduating, entering a professional school, or taking up the business of life...
...great many students secured positions through the University's Employment Bureau last year. This speaks well for the bureau as an efficient organization and disproves the theory that the University is a sort of paradise for the rich and the idle. In fact it shows that opportunities to earn one's way in the University are exceptionally good. It shows that any man who will honestly try, can earn a college education for himself...