Word: affront
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Without intending affront to anyone, the Quadrangler would like to suggest to the editors of college newspapers that they devote most of their time at their coming convention at Harvard to find a way to make their journals fit to read. Some of the college papers are eyesores typographically, others read as though they were edited by grammar school students and still others, at best nothing more than glorified bulletin boards, betray a striking lack of initiative on the part of their managers. The influence, for good or evil, which a college newspaper possesses is not always appreciated. What effect...
...acquiescence, voluntary or enforced, in the orders of the British Admiralty, whereby commerce and passenger traffic between Germany and the United States are completely cut off--and this in spite of the ineffectiveness of the Entente blockade along the Baltic coast of Germany. Again, how shall we condone the affront to our national honor represented by the constant rifling of our mails, in violation of one of the most sacred principles of international...