Word: dragged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of cigars, cigarettes, and pipes smoked daily by these men varies considerably. In the case of cigarettes we find that five drag at only one each per day, and that the number of men who smoke an increasing number of cigarettes per day mounts until sixteen Freshmen claim to consume five each day. Although the popularity of greater numbers of weeds decreases from here on, hero is an exception in the case of those who smoke ten per day, for eighteen confessed to the accusation. Four men puff at the rate of twenty every twenty-four hours...
...practice alone. We should have a mass meeting at once, so that the students body may familiarize themselves with the words. If this is done we will be able to practice and appear in a more creditable manner at the remaining games. If "Harvard Indifference" allows this matter to drag along until a week before the Princeton game, we are liable to receive a severe jolt, which will come too late. WILLIAM E. HARRIS...
...loafer in peace times is a drag upon society. In war he is a parasite who endangers the safety of the state. Three commonwealths have officially put an end to war-time idleness. In the remainder of the country, where loafing must be equally frowned upon, the same stringent measures are necessary. With the Government drafting millions into military service, the vagrant poor and the idle rich have no place in social organization. The effectiveness of the war's prosecution depends upon the gainful employment of everyone able to be of real service, at home as well as abroad...
...learn what confronts the country. Let us hope that there are few men of the requisite age and the supposed discretion for voting, either college trained or not, either Democrats or Republicans, who believe that the sole issue is that of tariff. Shades of Jefferson Davis! Why not drag up states' rights...
...service to the University. There is no doubt of the fact that universal membership would be the salvation of the Union, both from a social and a financial standpoint. There is also no doubt that the present condition of affairs cannot and should not be allowed to drag out wearily to a catastrophe. Compulsory membership, however, faces a difficulty which even its strongest advocates cannot overlook: it practically means raising the tuition fee above the two hundred dollar mark which is to take effect next fall. It will be recalled that an argument made in favor of raising...