Word: striking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Many striking quotations from President Eliot's writings show that his policy has been inspired from the beginning by a singularly clear and comprehensive ideal of what education should be in a democracy. It should be open to all, it should foster individuality, it should produce experts and respect for experts, it should secure co-operation, and it should stimulate public spirit. These quotations from President Eliot, expressing his profound faith in a democratic society trained and enlightened as he would have it, are, I think, what will strike German readers most in the articles. They are also what will...
...editorial, which maintains that the present students are required to write too many theses, fails in general to strike home, and almost entirely loses points when the author commits himself to the folly that illiteracy should be corrected only in English...
...College life will be saner when we distribute our labors carefully and thus strive to strike a more perfect balance between the two ultras, automatic officers and automatic loafers...
...Green '58; "Each in his Own Tongue and Other Poems," by W. H. Carruth, A.M., '89; "Fragments of Empedocles, Translated into English Verse," by W. E. C. Leonard, A.M., '99; "A Working Grammar of the English Language," by J. C. Fernald '60; "Limitations of the Right to Strike," by W. G. Merritt '02; "Times of Sunrise and Sunset in the United States," by R. W. Willson '73; "The Higher Life in Art," by John La Farge '01; "Mars as the Abode of Life," by Percival Lowell '76; "The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century...
...fifth, Leonard singled and stole second. McCall was out for bunting on the third strike. Leonard tried to make third on Mansfield's throw to second, and was safe, as O'Rourke dropped Cashen's throw. Harvey flied out but Aronson singled to centre, scoring Leonard. Holy Cross made a run in the sixth, on doubles by Mansfield and Carney, with two out. After that the opponents were not dangerous...