Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leaders, thinkers and orators of the day--yes, I am inclined to say, to one of the world's great minds. Plainly it is not Mrs. Pankhurst who has been injured but Harvard. Must our University assume towards this newer phase of the battle for political freedom the same blind, reactionary attitude to which it held--to its disgrace--throughout the struggle for the abolition of human slavery in America? OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD '93. The Evening Post, New York...
Whether the undergraduates as one unified enthusiastic whole will "come back" as we know Haughton will, is an other matter. They may still have a blind sort of faith in the coaches but unless it is expressed, why continue to support a team? The coming three weeks is just exactly the time when moral support is going to be decisive. Harvard undergraduates as well as Harvard teams have not been famous in the past for the irresistible drive of their enthusiasm when vanquished. Here is the best sort of time in dispell quickly the ever prevalent gloom after defeat...
Charity begins at home. Let not long acquaintance with a garment blind you to its defects, and remember that truly a bag in the hand is worth two in the trousers. Make a few disparaging remarks on your suit--you will not be the first--and don't forget that if you are going to give your clothes away it's a great deal better to know it than to think you've struck a good bargain with...
...other hand, owed its success to the very spirited performance of the company. A college professor, in order to satisfy the conditions of a bequest, is required to identify the hats of his class of young women. His success proves him to have been less absent-minded and color blind than he was reputed to be. T. M. Spelman '13, as the professor, and Miss Esther Watson as the professor's wife, are deserving of special mention, though every part was well taken...
...Scales and the Sword," by Farnham Bishop, graduate student, is set in a small grocer's shop on the day of a great fire which upsets the social order of a vast city. It is the tragedy of individual blind selfishness and cupidity shattered against relentless martial...