Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...foregoing irrefutable torrent of natural history leads right down to the following fair proposition: Why not pretend that we possess that calm and bloodless self-control that the professors pretend to possess when faced with the crushing fact of spring? Why not? This vast effort may seem pointless. But if we make good our pretense as they often manage to make good theirs, yes, in the very Tace of spring, ours will be a great consummation, a true millenium. The barriers of June will be removed, and we will be in a position to say to our professor: "Verily...
...echoes of the Presidential election still rumble through the latest issue of the Advocate. An editorial nobly upholds the national point of view against partisanship, and Brent D. Allinson '17, in a tone of exalted idealism, seeks to show a parallelism between the "bloodless revolution" of 1688 and that which seems to him involved in the victory of Mr. Wilson. One need not be convinced in order to envy the writer his power of seeing our present-day policies in such a haze of glory...
...larger colleges and universities have fairly well established reputations. Mention of Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth brings up defined notions of what these institutions stand for and the quality of their human product. Harvard for a number of years, has been thought of definitely as a university not exactly bloodless, but at least less boisterous than some of its neighbors. It has been regarded as cloistral, its vigor somewhat stifled by--er--snobbishness...