Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past, many of the latter are obsolete now. The whole organization of society has changed. New means of transportation has greatly decreased, whether we willed it or not, that isolation of this nation which Washington urged. By our entrance into the World War, we gave up formally our position apart from the affairs of the world. We are in them now; we cannot withdraw. The progress of science and the development of a humanitarian feeling for the rest of mankind has placed us irrevocably on the side of world politics...
...Apart from all economic considerations the effects of national prohibition on the temper of the laboring classes will be most alarming. Whether it has been scientifically proven that hard work needs a stimulant or not makes no difference to the worker. He believes he needs that stimulant and resents bitterly interference with what he considers his personal liberty. Foreign agitators can seize this opportunity of pointing out that the government of the United States is as despotic as any in Europe and that the only means of salvation for working men is to do away with all government...
...becomes a menace or nuisance to those with whom he comes in contact, the result, far from being liberty, is a clear infringement of the liberties of other people, as it subjects them to definite inconveniences and restraints, if not sufferings. Even the man who becomes passively drunk, quite apart from harming himself, is cheating society out of his usefulness. It is all very well to say that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent license, and that license...
...excessive learning as ourselves matters not. What boots it that their thoughts, far from being concentrated on some ethereal conception of intellectuality, are intent on that position at ten dollars a week and the comparative chances of an aesthetic lunch on fourteen cents at "Holts'." Their raiment sets them apart from the plebeian mass of undergraduates for the remainder of their connection with the University...
...wearing of these vestments is a custom, resembling in its dubious antiquity, those proud and hallowed traditions of the English universities. It is altogether fitting that the Senior class be properly set apart before those deep and mysterious rites of graduation. It is the best Senior class we have! As such, let them be fittingly attired...