Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Organized football as returned. After two years absence, when everything in the life of the University was completely changed, this king of college sports will be welcomed with open arms by undergraduates and graduates alike. Nothing welds the University into a unit like a good snappy foot season; nothing creates as favorable an impression of Harvard in the minds of an incoming class...
...reality, they are complementary; for they both constitute a needed protest against that evasion of initiative which is regretably characteristic of the present era in the American college. On most of Mr. Lamont's effective plea for the Endowment Fund I am estopped from commenting; but I would like to point out how vital is the appeal lie makes for the proper equipment of chemistry and the establishment of a mobile fund. Neither the poetry nor the book reviews seem to me good. The first has real facility; but it represents that stage of development where words are more...
...group of public officials are allowed to force the state governments to permit them to become subject to the decrees of an outside body like the American Federation of Labor, the United States will soon become a nation controlled by labor unions instead of by an independent electorate. The last step would be a unionized army and navy...
...MacVeagh believes with O. Henry that a dream is a vehicle for literary effect which is always convenient, conventional and unassailable. In this way he launches a spirited attack on Mr. Wilson, the Peace Conference, and all who feel like letting the Germans down lightly, in a way that would delight an Old Guard Republican. He leaves no doubt in the mind of the reader as to his political leanings...
...been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I have never been beaten; never yet fought, shall certainly fight when my hour comes, and shall beat.' Emerson wrote that in a prose way, but he never wrote more like a poet, for he wrote with the long view...