Word: aires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this has a certain air of manly, or brute, valor, with a generous admixture of "Might makes right." But needless to say, most of us believe that government is not based solely on force, and that there is another arbiter than arms which is far more potent, not only to settle disputes, but to keep them settled. Perhaps it may be called, by way of ellipsis, public opinion. Even war has its rules. If force is to decide the matter, why not fight it out, by fair means or foul, till the weaker side cries for mercy? If resort...
...when the undergraduate enters the building the atmosphere is cold, the rooms not too homelike, and the service decidedly in different. What the Union needs is "enmasse" enthusiasm. It can well do without an elephantine "frattiness," but it does need friendliness. It does need to avoid that lingering air of decay, and to cultivate the well-ordered, smooth efficiency of the city club. It does need to be homelike. If the institution is ever to escape the spectre of an annual deficit, is ever to attain hearty undergraduate support, its general atmosphere must change...
...given off by the burning jets is so oppressive that the tendency is to labor entirely in the gloom rather than endure the odor. Injury to eyes or to lungs,--these are the alternatives. Recently a professor was obliged to dismiss his class, so bad had the air become on account of these antiquated gas-jets...
There are two bits of verse--a breath of fresh air from Mr. Willcox, and a direct and impressive "Warrior's Prayer"; and in conclusion three useful reviews of current plays...
...better speed being made in the practice on Thursday. The main feature of the intercollegiate contest was the ski-jumping. R. C. Paulsen, of New Hampshire State, Friday's winner in the ski cross-country race, made an exhibition leap in which he turned a complete somersault in the air, finishing this feat in perfect form...