Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past editorials we expressed the belief that the justification of athletics, particularly at Harvard, was two fold: they served to make financially possible for all the students participation in some form of sport, and they served as the one tangible bond between Harvard men as such, particularly for those Harvard men who, because of immaturity, can not be bound together in any other way. Let us, in the light of these two factors, consider the question which is raised by President Lowell...
...alas, such an attitude, although ideal, is not entirely practicable here. Some of us can be bound together by the tradition of indifference; the rest must have some more tangible bond of interest. Were it not for the appeal of athletics or of competitions for managerships, our school boys would fly off like feathers before an electric fan; Harvard would mean nothing to them, and the Subway would become for then, the only vehicle of self-expression. This fortunately, is but one of the many justifications for athletics; it is the only justification for college spirit...
...Jugo-Slav quota was full, and the boy was shipped back, homeless and penniless. "A rotten deal" was what the official in charge of the case termed it; but he was helpless. Two young Roumanian girls were deported although their father, in this country, offered a thirty-thousand dollar bond for their release...
...make your country great and happy. Your boys rose like one man for this country, just as ours did. You and we entered the war for the principle of idealism; and came out of it without grievances and without possessions. These facts form a common bond between us. Among you are many Italian students and I hope that in the future American students will come to Italy in increasing numbers. I bring to you the greetings of Italian youth, and wish to carry back the greetings of American youth to them, not only as an affirmation of the past...
...Block that punt! Block that punt!" warns the bond-salesman, as if it were the announcer who was opposing Legly...