Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gentleman's grade of C" he flatly thought beneath him; his idea of a gentleman's grade was hard and thoughtful work on whatever the gentleman undertook. That landed him in Phi Beta Kappa, by direct action. Or rather it landed him among people who chose college because it was a place to do something, and then did it as well as they knew how. That principle he carried throughout his life. He never skimped or spared himself. He put Theodore Roosevelt, all there was of him, right into whatever he undertook...
...Under Dr. Murlin's plan, which is devised for the benefit of busy young people who have something else in the world to do besides study, the instruction at a university would resemble the old-fashioned cable system of street cars, in which a great endless cable moved forever beneath the street, upon which the cars caught wherever they could, and ran as long as they wished. Or it might be compared with a continuos performance at a theatre, where the audience arrives and departs at its convenience. The proposition, of course, is not quite so simple as that. Under...
...meantime there are unquestionably strong forces at work beneath the surface to bring about an early peace. As it becomes clearer to all concerned that a military decision is not to be expected in the near future, peace tends to become more a political than a military question. The problem of offering a more exact statement of our war aims assumes new interest. The many long and weary months of war are bound to cause a shifting of emphasis from the immaterial ideal with which we entered the war to the material results of victory. We are more...
...first call to arms was answered bravely and without questioning by those young men who represented the highest ideals and traditions of Harvard. Those who remain here at school are for the greater part men who tried to get into the service and failed, or men who were beneath the declared age limitation for service...
...have been with the Corps in one capacity or another, four of whom have been killed. Richard Hall, of Dartmouth, and William Kelley, of Philadelphia, met their death from shell-fire; Henry M. Suckley '10 was killed by an airplane bomb, and H. Sortwell '11 was crushed beneath a truck at Salonika. Over 400,000 wounded men have been carried by the American ambulances during the last three years, and at present the service is costing $80,000 a month...