Word: alerte
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...School of Law of Columbia University. Dean Jervey retired a year ago from the Manhattan law firm of Satterlee. Canfield & Stone to become a professor in the Columbia Law School. In charge of the instruction in the courses in Personal Property and Trusts,- he quickly made his alert personality felt by students and faculty. Born in Charleston, S. C, in 1879, he was educated at the Charleston High School (1896), Charleston College (1896-97), the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. (B.A. 1900 and M.A. 1901), Johns Hopkins (1902) and (comparatively late in life...
...second successive year, under conditions which again threatened to convert the game to water polo, an alert and powerful Yale eleven has earned its victory over Harvard. The University bows to Captain Lovejoy and his men in acknowledgment of their clean sportsmanship and their invincible spirit...
There is no reason to believe that Stanford will not begin the conflict at the quarterback berth. His showing on Saturday marked him as the most alert man on the Crimson team and made him by all odds the most promising field general for the final games, barring Cheek's recovery...
...appearance of a new pupil of Mr. Auer is in itself the signal for alert ears. So a discriminating audience gathered in Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, for the first recital of Miss Ruth Breton, his most recent product. The old master himself sat in his favored position?a box on the left side of the hall...
...commenting on this Professor Collins said: "I have found that a man's marks are always higher during the training season than when he is not in training. When a man is competing for an athletic team his nervous system is keyed up, his mind is alert, and his habits are regular, and all this enables him to do his work better. I am a strong advocate of competitive athletics as an aid in maintaining high scholarship ratings...