Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...counter and were given free cocoa, bread, cheese, crackers, and cigarettes. Can you imagine anything more wonderful than coming in, after being out in the enchase for days, perhaps, cold, wet, and hungry, and being given a nice hot cup of cocoa with a word of greeting? I cannot tell you what an impression this sight made on me, but it surely made my heart ache. Having seen the battle from the start, I could not help comparing it with the evolution of a football game. All preparations were made for the start, the men went forward with a grim...
...which, other things being equal, determined their selection. In the future the same will doubtless hold true. Thus any man who for sees a possibility, however slight, of his entering active service should begin early to train himself in this fundamental part of his preparation. For languages cannot be learned in a few hours of intense application; it is rather by a slow and unconscious process of assimilation that they are mastered. And for this, nothing is quite so valuable as the reading of foreign newspapers and talking with natives of foreign lands, both of which are being offered...
...feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national service make for a spirit of noblesse oblige, especially in the junior ranks. And so long as they are in the main obtainable on merit and without favoritism, they cannot be fairly called undemocratic...
...Later in the year five more Seniors may be elected; these men are those whose records for the first part of their College career have been marred by sickness or other causes not affecting their good character, but who have done such excellent work that their fitness for membership cannot be questioned. At the close of the year the society may choose five additional men who have been successful in the award of prizes and academic distinctions. In this way the membership may include from 30 to 40 Seniors and eight Juniors at the end of the year...
Today the Freshman football team goes hunting young tigers in Jungle town. Not for many years has such a trip taken place. Not by traps or snares will they capture their game, but by fighting in the open. The regular Tiger cannot uphold his reputation this year, his cubs must do it for him. But these young tigers are just as loathe to have knots tied in their tails. They will not submit without a struggle. The 1921 eleven has a daring task ahead. So far it has not met its better, but it is never safe to use this...