Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That was two years ago. It has taken our nation that long, through many more losses, and through hidden or open insult, to arouse its slumbering passion. "The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine...
...current number of the Illustrated is thoroughly representative of the present state of mind of Harvard. The dominant note throughout, from the very excellent cover design to the end of Dr. Sargent's article, hidden away among the advertisements, is preparation for war. The few normal activities of College life worth recording, such as the taking of the Senior picture and the election of the hockey captain, are relegated to inconspicuous back pages, just as they are kept far in the back of the undergraduate mind. It is unfortunate, however, that such irrelevant pictures of those of the Yale crew...
...uniforms have already caused a change in habits and posture of the men wearing them. The traditional undergraduate indifference to the niceties of dress has been hidden beneath the smartness of olive-drab. The traditional undergraduate slouch is ironed straight in the square-shouldered cut of the military blouse. Clothing which is made to be worn well makes a man stand well. And when a man stands well, he is apt to to think well of himself, and of that service which he represents...
...dust has been brushed from the corners in the Union, and spread evenly over the floor. Now the face of the bust of Caesar or Michael Angelo has been washed to a candid white, and on the book-racks copies of the Black Cat and the Advocate have been hidden from sight. Now the awning is out and the carpet is down...
...raison d'etre" by securing and holding a job. Strange to say, many men, some of them ready to graduate have only the haziest notion of the position for which they are supposed to have been fitting. They drift along fatuously believing that sooner or later they will discover hidden talents and astonish the world...