Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Morley Dobson, shows much skill in the difficult sestina, but far too little depth of judgement. In more senses than one, it is simple to uphold one side of the Flume controversy, and only to rhapsodize, not judge, or analyze the question. The normal reaction from this sort of thing has been expressed by an undergraduate some months ago, in the Harvard Magazine...
...thing is certain and you can tell each and everyone for me: the fellows who make up the football team next fall will be those who are ready to go through hell-fire and brimstone for Yale and who are willing to make any sacrifice necessary. There will be no petting or coddling and all concerned might just as well make up their minds to it now as later. I won't have a man on the squad who does not place Yale first and himself and his pleasures second. I am going to be mighty rough on those fellows...
...appetite is so poor and my other needs so limited while I am in bed, as I shall be for some months, that I can think of but one thing that would help me--that is a graphophone and a few musical comedy and band records. That would help chase the blues, but it is not a necessity...
...this country the citizen is denied private redress of wrongs and guaranteed the security of his fundamental rights. It is therefore a serious thing for the rank and file to believe, as they do believe today--that litigation is impossible for the poor man, and that wrongs go unredressed. It is a sinister fact, too, when we boast of the ingenuity of our lawyers...
...definitely the fact that the Republican Convention approves of the action of the Republican Senate--a fact scarcely open to doubt. It goes so far as to agree with the Senate in opposing the League of Nations without proper reservations. That, it will be seen, is a very different thing from favoring a League of Nations with reservations...