Word: sloganism
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According to comic supplement traditions, an umpire is a species of reptile, cozing with venom, and warped with hatred against one or both teams in a ball game. Therefore the slogan of all right-minded partisans is, "Kill the umpire," on all available occasions. But consider the life of an umpire. Nobody loves him, and no matter what he says, he hurts somebody's feelings. He is there to earn his living as competently as he can, and he is not eaten with hatred for anybody. What is the use of futile demonstrations against his decisions? The stands may well...
...reduce the cost of living," has been the slogan of one generation after another. In 1882 the College generation of the day organized the Harvard Co-operative Society to fulfill the slogan. Just what reduction it has secured it is hard to say, for that elusive phantom, the cost of living, has risen beyond our vision on the hot words that have so in-effectually attacked it. But if we may judge by the business done with those who do not expect dividends and from the dividends paid those who do, we are tempted to say that the Co-operative...
...that a great majority of the graduates will believe with us that this was the only possible and right decision for the new captain to make. It was the only decision that could be made--consistent with anything but that vacillating policy in college athletics which has for its slogan 'anything...
...irrationality of war must be obvious even to the militarist. Its decisions are inherently unjust or only occasionally and accidentally just. Might, despite the proverb, is not right. The traditional slogan, "In time of peace prepare for war" is a relic of mediaeval days of incessant warfare, and has no meaning today. There is no surer way to make other nations distrust us than to distrust them. Let us trust and be trusted...
...Still, there is this to be said on the matter, from the editor's point of view: the number introduces, in an attractive way, a subject of real importance to undergraduates: and as for the rest of the issue, the motto, "Sat est. scripsisse" is a sufficiently good slogan with which to challenge one's contemporaries