Word: lying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great fault seems to lie in the lack of well-balanced teams. It has been the notable stars and point-winners who have kept up interest in track...
...greatest strength of the team will undoubtedly lie in the field events. In the pole vault the team will have a brilliant performer in R. H. Harwood, who is easily the most promising man the University has had for some time in this event. Harwood, who will be the team's mainstay in this department, is the National Interscholastic champion in the pole vault, and has a record of over 12 feet in competition. Of the other pole vaulters F. D. Johnson has been showing considerable promise, and should be vaulting over 11 feet in this spring's meets...
...school, a hundred in the naval reserve course, and many more still enrolled in some militia organization. Considering these facts, it may be conservatively estimated that fifteen hundred Harvard men are active in the great preparedness movement to give our country adequate military and naval organizations. These figures cannot lie. Harvard is in the van and can justly point with pride to her patriotic showing in this period of national danger...
...muddling the mind and reducing it to a state of indecision is to draw loose comparisons. All important differences can be made to look like differences of degree. Suppose that it be admitted that the Allied blockade is illegal in this or that particular. Shall we then simply lie back and say that all of the belligerents are equally culpable because they all use illegal means to crush the enemy? It would be exactly as reasonable as though one were to refuse to distinguish between the angry man and the murderer because they both wish evil; or between a covetous...
...study history, psychology, above all literature, that we may know men, and the motives that lie behind their actions. If we do not formulate some philosophy of life in all our studying, then our learning is nothing, and we have failed...