Word: lives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...earnestly hope this number of the Lampoon will be suppressed by the authorities. In a winter distinguished by influenza, the armistice, the Peace Conference, and the institution of general examinations, it looks as though none of the ancient customs will long survive. The Transcript cannot have many years to live on its present lines; and I am doubtful if its death will not--if thus prematurely assisted--detract from the gaiety of nations. Only Punch has an equal humour, and Punch, after all, attains its effects by conscious and perspiring effort...
...food is specially prepared than when he merely eats around Cambridge. Furthermore, while track men do not need team work in the same sense as baseball and crew, they will benefit by the moral effect of being thrown together. To be successful they should talk track, eat track, and live track. Our team has an excellent opportunity of winning the intercollegiate meet. Any step that may hurt those chances is poor economy...
Postal cards have been sent to the members of the class who live at home, requesting them to mail their subscriptions. Checks are to be made payable to E. C. Storrow, treasurer...
...establishment of military and naval units in all the colleges and universities of the country is merely enlarging the scope of service for trained men. If we attribute our advances to the institutions under which we live, then we must be ready to uphold those institutions for what the advances are worth. Preparedness to defend with arms is the natural complement to ability to promote with judgment and foresight, and the man who develops the one at the expense of the other, the man who builds up a beautiful country without providing for its security, evidences a surprising lack...
...Russian Jews, whom we permitted to breed anarchy in the slums of New York. We have long had the problem of the city slum, and we have failed to deal with it. We have acquiesced in a twofold condition whereby great hordes of foreigners are unable--sometimes unwilling--to live according to American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal of the immigrant. To have civilized and Christianized the slums twenty years ago would have been...