Word: splendid
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...chief deduction, however, is that the private schools offer superior training for a definite goal, they coach the boys for the "exams" upon which depend their entrance to the college of their choice, while the public schools train their students for general efficiency in life. The report is a splendid tribute to the work of the public schools. But if the average public school has any tendency to over-coach its boys, there are a lot of private schools in this country where the very highest standards of general training, discipline and democracy are maintained, and their graduates...
...sermon Dr. Fosdick did not advance any Quixotic ideas of knight er-rantry on the part of the United States. He did give expression to a type of splendid American which has been mighty in the past, and which we trust will be mighty in the future. M. J. DONNER '21. P. P. COOGIN...
...fair play and generous co-operation, and they will rest under a serious indictment if, at the subsequent concerts which are to be given by the newly organized Harvard Glee Club they do not testify to their approval of the fine work of the Glee Club and the splendid leadership of Dr. Davison by actually attending the concerts and having the satisfaction of knowing that, not only are they enjoying some excellent music beautifully sung, but are supporting one of the most significant movements for the broad development of musical life in the University which has come about for some...
...reported to Coach Anderson for the first practice of the year yesterday numbered over 40, many of them being men who had chosen crew or football during the fall. This large squad, though probably greater than in former years, due to the Compulsory Athletics for Freshmen ruling, offers a splendid opportunity for the management to run off a Freshman novice tournament, open to all men from 1923. This, if run, will probably start at the same time as the University Novice Tournament in the week previous to the Christmas vacation...
...week later the University once more triumphed with a defeat of Springfield, 1-0. In its annual trip the team was unfortunate in having to play two games in succession and travel two nights, but in spite of this they tied Cornell and played a splendid game against Princeton, so that it was with difficulty that the latter won 3-0. Pennsylvania won the sixth game, but in the Yale game last week a gruelling match ended with a scoreless tie, P. K. Fisher '20 carried the ball repeatedly up to his opponents' goal, only to have it kicked back...