Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stronger position than ever before. Not only have men who served with the colors come back to them; they have attracted thousands of boys who never had thought of going to college, but whose eyes were opened by the things colleges and college men did in that great struggle...
Besides the small army of yearling athletes, a great many upperclassmen make use of the pools, the basketball court, the bowling alleys, the handball courts and the array of apparatus which lines the walls of the gymnasiums. In squash, in the courts of the Randolph Gymnasium, more men exercise than in almost all the rest of the informal squads put together. Daily the fourteen courts are filled at half-hour intervals from 1.30 until 6 o'clock affording a game to over...
During the past week the great increase in the number of additional subscriptions that have been received has been one of the most gratifying results of the Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the alumni have doubled their subscriptions, and in two instances have contributed an additional amount far in excess of their original subscriptions. This impetus has been attributed mainly to the activity of the class committees in an endeavor to gain a one hundred per cent response from their members...
...Harvard Aero Club will hold its first formal banquet of the Year in Boston during the second week in January. Arrangements are now being made to have several men of great aeronautical prominence address this gathering, but no definite plans have yet been formulated...
...ordinary man, intent upon his own affairs, and content to let the universe whirl on as it it will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names...