Word: straight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...field work until towards the end. And yet he never stood upon the platform of Sanders Theatre to make even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire and spirit underneath ready to enforce obedience, if it was possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard...
...does not seem advisable that the straight "H" be awarded this year. Discounting entirely the records of the teams, it is obvious that in no branch of sport do they compare to pre-war teams. The wearing of the full "H" not only classes a man as one of the best of seven, or eight, or nine, or eleven men in a particular form of athletics at a particular time, but it denotes an athlete. No standard of athletic ability can be set, but in general it would be inopportune to give the letter to the members of this year...
...until the last of the doubles at Princeton, when F. M. Warburg '19 and J. S. Levy '19, rallying from a score of 4 to 2 made against them by Smith and Grey, scored four straight games and won their set was the match with the Princeton tennis team decided in favor of the University. In the singles, Middlewitch and Fletcher won the only two matches for Princeton by defeating E. B. Benjamin '18 and Warburg, while C. C. Claflin '20, A. E. Kirk '20, W. W. Rice '18 and J. S. Levy '19 each conquered his opponent...
...Richardson of Brookline, who put up the most consistent lobbing game seen on the local courts this season, but finally lost, 7 to 5, 6 to 3. F. C. Hanighen '21, E. D. Cumming '21 and R. R. Weaver '21 had no trouble in winning their singles matches in straight sets...
...baseball team won its third straight contest of the season Saturday afternoon by rolling up a total of 17 runs against Wentworth Institute while C. B. Butterfield '21, on the mound for the Freshmen, held its opponents scoreless. The Freshman pitcher was in excellent form, allowing only five hits. In addition, not a Wentworth runner reached third base. W. B. Frothingham, playing his final game for the Freshmen, was the leader in the attack, getting a double and a triple in three times at bat, as well as scoring three runs. Considerable improvement was evident in the underclassmen's fielding...