Word: belongs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his hat. The secretary is of the opinion that in the excitement of the moment the General may have tossed it over the goal post, but the latter is unable to confirm this. Furthermore there are two hats on the rack which the secretary feels confident do not belong to the General. What...
...most important point which Mr. Hollowell brings up is that graduate students are given to understand that they "do not quite belong". The only answer that can be returned to that statement is that the majority of them indicate quite plainly that they do not care to "belong". They come here and find a different system from that to which they have been accustomed; they rebel and find the results unsatisfactory. Many of them can not become reconciled to the lecture system and the taking of notes. Some feel that Harvard men are given the preference. Then there...
...They do it now because they can, and will, get away with it until the Harvard cheering section feels a little shame and self respect and throws them out in none too gentle a fashion. These individuals who persist in coming into the cheering section where they don't belong, place themselves on par with that low down rabble that infests the wooden stands and puts up such a wonderful exhibition of fair mindedness...
...because everything tends to destroy whatever loyalty the men might have. When they go to some other institution, they nearly always support it whole-heartedly. In the case of Harvard, they are given to understand, both here and among alumni out over the country, that they "do not quite belong". To quote only the instance nearest to the point: when a student in one of the graduate schools applies for a ticket to the Yale game, he finds himself at the bottom of the list. If he is a candidate for an A.M., it is his one chance...
...ever-recurring struggle of feudalism against chivalry, pride in power against peaceful advancement. The philosophy of Nietzsche and the kultur of Ludendorff are not things lightly to be reckoned with or disposed of; less so now that they are driven to intrench themselves. The spoils may belong to the victors; but unless the victors know how to make good use of them, they are more harmful than otherwise; "vae victis" sounds very well on paper...