Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale wanted football, but not if it conflicted with Government needs. Yale has taken the bigger view. She has held no false ideals of a premature peace. 'Duty, Honor, Country' is as thoroughly her motto as it is that of my own West Point...
...considerable body of citizens whose sense of obligation to their country is not so lively because, perhaps, they feel that they have less from that country. If the pacifist propaganda makes headway among such sections of public opinion--as it shows signs of doing--it will mean that something bigger and more difficult must be attended to before the campaign for conscription can be put through. It will mean that universal service can be successfully claimed only when there exists a lively and universal sense of obligation for benefits received--and that the benefits are not yet sufficiently apparent...
...realized as all too few people in America do realize that a nation's welfare both in war and peace depends very closely on the science and industry of chemistry, and will in the future unquestionably be more and more dependent on it. Therefore, how could a man do bigger work or render a better service to his country than in doing something to strengthen this all-important branch of industry in which our nation is so weak? To this work Pennock gave everything. He was working without a guiding hand in the no man's land of science...
Yale's triumph over Princeton cannot shake our confidence in a Harvard victory. All Yale teams have looked alike to Haughton; the bigger they are, the harder they fall...
...battle of the Marne, by Mr. Paulding; an editorial on Harvard men in the present war; and three book reviews. These compositions are thoughtful in conception and finished in structure. They bear out and strengthen, however, the feeling which I have already expressed, that the Monthly must dare bigger things, must be willing to commit graver faults, if it is to retain its influence over undergraduate life and ideals...