Word: ago
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fledged citizenship when they take their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth is to be theirs, all the serious thought that they can bring to bear upon the choice offered to them. Four years ago they were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest in politics was academic. Today it is practical. Four years ago the ballot was a symbol. Today it is a weapon for good or ill. Fortunately for the destiny of the nation...
...slight bruise on the knee but will be at practice again very soon. In preparing for the coming game with Virginia Polytechnic Institute next Friday, there are only two changes contemplated: C. Taft will probably be moved from centre to tackle and J. Callahan who began a month ago as centre but was forced to stop for a while on account of an injury, will take centre again. Not much is known of the Virginia Polytechnic team, but a rather easy game is expected...
...certainly the most up-to-date thing then existing, had no respect whatever for the monuments of the Ethiopian period. Old rubbish to the dump. Ten great kings, each perhaps in his own way as great as Ozymandias, king of kings, were "scrapped" relentlessly by those moderns of long ago--scrapped in contemptuous fragments. Nothing more forever of Tirhaka the magnificent, of Tanut-Amon the irresistible! They were consigned to the deepest dump. But here comes a delving American scholar, from far-away around the earth, and, seeking for a place to put his own rubbish, inpinges upon the rubbish...
...sent onto the field for any hard scrimmaging until last Thursday, when the Freshmen lined up against them for the first time this season. And in this scrimmage the University eleven showed a much stronger offensive and defensive playing power than was evident in the Tufts game a week ago. Provided that the Crimson team can overcome their tendency to fumble and start before the ball, they should have no difficulty in disposing of the North Carolinans...
...conspicuously different from others, if he makes an effort to be politically well informed. In fact the best educated citizens pride themselves on their knowledge of current politics. The feeling that a real gentleman should hold himself aloof from the vulgar activities of politics has disappeared long ago...