Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loss of one player may not break the morale of the whole. Yet the loss to any team however strong of a player so remarkable is a serious impairment of its strength. On the game Saturday depends the victorious conclusion of the whole season of play. The team cannot well afford to present against Yale's fast and aggressive team anything less than its full power...
...intended to prevent war by suggesting a milder form of resistance, it would have failed of its purpose had it become law. Congress, and apparently the President without the aid of Congress, may grant this privilege to vessels likely to be exposed to submarine attack; but it cannot guarantee them a peaceful passage...
...Inspiration cannot be where sincerity is not," says an editorial writer in the current number of the Advocate. "Neither inspiration nor sincerity is in much of our undergraduate poetry. There are too many sonorous nothings, too many technical devices, too many detriments. It were better to express true emotion imperfectly than to express a feigned emotion perfectly...
...comes press censorship will follow, and at first the censor will do strange things. He will be working for ends he cannot clearly define by means with which he is wholly unfamiliar. Military information of importance may be withheld from an enemy by the publication of dispatches in this form, but they will look queer until we get used to them: "Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 30.--Mr. Bryan said today: "The -- is cast. From this moment we are all--. Our shores were invaded at dawn. Before sunset one--volunteers will spring to arms.'" Dashes are less cumbersome than (word or words...
...University voted against the present administration last November. During the past few months this same majority has criticized the re-elected President upon his slow manner of solving our international difficulties. Whether his methods have been right or wrong can only be properly judged by the next generation. We cannot help realizing that the obstacles in his path have been unprecedented in size and seriousness. The time has come for this majority to forget their preferences of last year and show themselves as whole-hearted supporters of the nation's leader...