Word: world
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...about a higher standard of scholarship at Harvard; I want to raise the standard of athletics as well as scholarship." For this reason dormitory rowing ought to be developed, because it encourages general exercise and this will ultimately help our University crew. "We want to pour out into the world men who are all-around men. The crews to my right and left have made athletics a source of admiration, and every Undergraduate, as far as is within his power, ought to imitate them...
Shout! Shout! till the world resounds with...
...that of "surfing." To do this one mans a dug-out canoe built with an outrigger, and paddles about half a mile off shore. The ride on the top of an in-rushing wave is comparable only to coasting or skiing. The scenery of the island is famous the world over; for the north side of Honolulu slopes precipitously into the sea from a height of over 4,000 feet. The largest extinct volcano in the world, with a crater many miles in diameter, is one of the many wonders of the island. Back from the coast are miles...
...comedy, and there is much rich humor of character and situation. The first act, in the blacksmith shop of Goody Rickby, the witch, in a seventeenth century Massachusetts village, shows the creation and early training of the scarecrow, who, under the title of Lord Ravensbane, is sent into the world to avenge on Rachel, the daughter of Justice Merton, the wrong that the latter in his youth has inflicted on the witch. Attended by Dickon, "a Yankee impersonation of the Prince of Darkness," Ravensbane, a perfect straw-man, goes forth...
...Professor Neilson's appreciation of Mr. Hagedorn's important volume "A Troop of the Guard" is sympathetic and just. The review of Mr. Zangwill's "Melting Pot" is discriminating. Evidently, the prose in the number is alive with interest in matters of present concern within and without the College world...