Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is merely an index of how this nation is penny-wise and pound-foolish. New York city is having an epidemic of robberies such as it has not had for years. More than once recently a longshoremens strike has tied up ocean travel. New York has been spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion...
...paper lately of semi coercive articles aimed at the Government of the United States? It would seem that the University was entirely made up of men who considered that they were capable of running this country. The cry is "Peace, Peace." How many men that are today raising that foolish cry were eighteen months ago on their way to Chateau Thierry? Count 'em yourself...
...depleted the Athletic Association's reserves, but a large bank balance will result from the football game November 22. That economy is necessary, that foolish expenditure is unjustifiable, is obvious Undergraduates in the nature of events must be penalized for the war. Competition with Yale, however, is an immense asset in increasing the popularity of any sport. Money spent wisely to provide such contests for minor teams will do more than any other action to increase the general participation in organized athletics...
Efforts instituted by the spectacular appeals of the men themselves are being exerted toward relieving the situation. These efforts are entirely necessary, but in the end they merely strive to eliminate the effects and not the causes of the difficulty. It is foolish to expect industry, however willing it may be, to create jobs arbitrarily out of pure patriotism. A few thousand can be taken care of in this way, but the majority of the surplus labor can only be absorbed through increased production founded upon the solid basis of increased demand for products. The real remedy to this pressing...
...have been rash and impetuous in opposing our feelings to the well-considered opinions of President Lowell, President Wilson, General Wood, other prominent men. We may have been foolish to try to set the eager spirit of youth against the mature judgment of those who are in a position to know what is right. But with this same enthusiasm we do feel that after three years of college, during which time he will surely obtain the very best it can offer him, the average undergraduate should answer the call. It is the greatest call the world has ever known...