Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seniors, for all their epithet of "Solemn", are not usually an entirely serious-minded clan; and the proposals for reforming the University that were expressed in last year's questionnaires, are not all of them in deadly earnest. One for example, urged that Radcliffe should be incorporated into the University, so that Harvard might profit by the advantages of co-education as it is known in the West. Yet on the whole the 1922 First Annual Report, which reprints many of these brief reform-bills, is a storehouse of valuable suggestions from en whose ideas were formed on the best...
...Astor: "I introduced a bill into the House of Commons to prohibit the sale of intoxicants to persons under 18 years of age. Opposition led me to remark that one of my opponents ' seemed to be the village donkey.' I was called to order and withdrew my epithet." Andrew J. Volstead: "Having been defeated for re-election to Congress, I called at the White House to pay my respects before retiring to Minnesota to practice law. Photographers leaped from ambush in the shrubbery and chased me across the lawn. Surrounded, I hauled down my colors and submitted...
During the Napoleonic wars, hardly any one in France ever spoke of Marshal Ney without calling him "the bravest of the brave." His gay reckless daring appealed to the people; they honored him with this epithet. Nowadays we do not speak of our generals in such terms. They fight by telephone, miles behind the line. We think of them, therefore, as resourceful, far-sighted, skilful, but as brave--almost never...
...little word "snobs" is getting to be as much misused as "socialist" or "liberal", and probably due to the fact that it has become a regular buffet-epithet in word wrangles. It remains, then, to clear away superfluous and incorrect meaning; and also to exonerate this often maligned college from any notorious connection with the term...
...time when the subject was first brought up the plans were so indefinite that the attitude of the Council might be laid to a too hasty examination of the methods, aims, and scope of the conference. A failure to reconsider the invitation, however, would more than justify the epithet of indifference generally and, we trust, erroneously applied to Harvard,--it would approach very near to rudeness...