Word: gold
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation yet dream that our war is a war of gold, and out battles to be fought here at home, we are worse than the blind who cannot see, for we will not see. The strength of our armies is needed now, has been needed for months, and will be needed more terribly as weeks go by, to drive back in hard battles the German arms...
...have been planned. Entry blanks have been sent to all the prominent preparatory schools in Massachusetts. The events will include the 100, 220, and 440-yard dashes; 880-yard run, one and two-mile runs, running high and broad jumps, and the pole-vault. The prizes will consist of gold, silver and bronze medals, which will be given to the winners of first, second and third places...
...same arguments with the same proof to the same conclusion are adduced. Our professors are always called unapproachable, and the undergraduates of the University are branded more or less delicately as "snobs," the proof of their snobbery being sown thick with mention of Gold Coasts, clubs and other evil inventions. It is somewhat of a question whether a man is an aristocrat even if he puts no virtuous boycott on Mt. Auburn street dormitories, and is social enough to like to meet his friends in a social organization...
...value--according to that man's ability, his intellectual vigor, his social capacity. Is this the case, or is there not rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object if the aristocracy of the College were one of intellect, but I am sure that Mr. Lloyd knows that it is not. At Yale or Dartmouth one is blind or dumb if he does not know personally the large...
...Gold medals will be awarded to the winners in the seven classes. First place will count four points and second and third two and one respectively, with one-half point added if a fall is secured. The preliminary bouts will be held Saturday afternoon and the finals in the evening...