Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...truth of the matter is that a great portion of our population is in actual want of food. These Army stores, placed, in every city, are temporarily relieving a fraction of the poverty-stricken. But huge as these reservoirs seem to be, the supplies cannot last forever. More manufactured articles are needed. A year ago the slogan was "more conservation"; today it should be "more production...
...than under a strictly laissez-faire policy. Men who have never partaken in any sports or games in their school days will be drawn into them in college and will be able to enjoy them and profit by them throughout life. The spectacle of clever and talented men needlessly stricken with physical disability in the prime of life, so that all their wit and ability must wither, is only too common; it is such useless waste of talent that the University would try to avoid by showing its students how to take care of themselves...
...Crocker '22 who has been rowing three on the first Freshman eight was stricken with appendicitis yesterday and was operated on in the afternoon. Crocker will be unable to row for the rest of the season and W. Whitman '22 has taken his place...
...drudgery of blue-pencilling copy-books, and have leisure for that serious work by which alone an university is made. Give them a chance to be human, and the undergraduate may find professors worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries. Get rid of the money-grubbers. Although we would then, by no means, be free from...
During the past year the University has been stricken again and again by the loss of many of its most able sons, not only in the armies of the nation, but also among those who carried on the work of the country and the College throughout the critical period. Few of this latter group merited more the respect and admiration of both graduates and undergraduates than Frederic Schenck '09, whose death we today record with sorrow...