Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately we undergraduates are well acquainted with this situation, so that the spectacle of the General peering anxiously from beneath the folds of an over sized hat should excite scarcely a second glance. For we too must stand in line at August's, unless by fraud or violence we can come at our pristine headgear. For those who would rather trust wit than muscle, the CRIMSON has devised a method of procedure, the mechanism of which is set forth in the news columns. We have had our mass meetings, we have had our victory; let us have co-operation...
...emotional standpoint, and not by any means bad prose. For description, Mr. Cleaves' account of a bull fight is vivid, and effective. For sheer nonsense, "Hicks the Half Back" is undeniably funny, and the reader laughs shame-facedly in spite of his conviction that the article is rather beneath his notice. And the naive way in which the story stops when the writer's well of humour goes dry is not the worst thing about...
...involved, and with a more subdued sense of the pent-up wrongs of the Conference than either Keynes or Dillon. Only upon the question of the secret diplomacy of the "big Four" and the Shantung settlement does he exhibit in his memoranda the inflamed state of mind that burned beneath his constant dignity and forbearance. For Mr. Lansing the Conference was an uncharted course of neglected counsel, cutting rebuffs and purposed ignorance as to the American programme...
...generic but he is--isn't he?--not exactly uncommon. Let us be honest. "Harvard Indifference" is at once the virtue upon which we pride ourselves and the vice, the stigma of which the ignorant seek to smear across our scutcheon. But the world knows what is written beneath in letters of gold. We cannot add a cubit to our moral stature by yearning to be like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently...
...generic but he is--isn't he?--not exactly uncommon. Let us be honest. "Harvard Indifference" is at once the virtue upon which we pride ourselves and the vice, the stigma of which the ignorant seek to smear across our scutcheon. But the world knows what is written beneath in letters of gold. We cannot add a cubit to our moral stature by yearning to be like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently...