Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your policy of hunting up some witty and clever (maybe) phrase, and, then repeating it, until repulsive, is extracting criticism from others, I notice, including one R. W. Graham, in TIME, April 23. It cannot now be truthfully said that you know...
...While it cannot be said that the Harvard undergraduate has only now discovered scholarship, it is undeniable that the stimulus to intellectual endeavor is greater than it probably has ever been before. The falling off in extra-curricular activity is a natural concomitant. The undergraduate publication stands upon the judgement of its own creators...
...unworthy of their Harvard affiliation in these and similar emergencies it might well be highly desirable that an official undergraduate organ voice the authoratative opinion of the whole undergraduate body. For the effective fulfillment of this purpose one factor is essential; the ability to act quickly and decisively. Emergencies cannot be handled if postal cards must be sent out, a meeting held, lengthy discussion indulged in and a vote cast before definite action can be taken. To perform effectively its duties as representative of the undergraduate body the Student Council thus must develop a mode of procedure or of control...
Student Councils are already in grave danger of going out of fashion. If they are to become mere shadows of their original selves, functionless and valueless, they cannot expect long to continue in existence. Nowhere does general interest in a Student Council lag as much as at Harvard nowhere are the dangers of that Council's dying a natural death so great. If the Harvard Student Council is to continue to exist and to play an essential part in undergraduate life it must turn its attention with increasing energy and intelligence to those fields which still offer wide opportunities...
...another speech once, 146 words long (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924). But this time he couldn't get it out. He swallowed once or twice, looked at the great doctor who had tended him for years, then swallowed and said: "I would like to make a speech but I cannot." The crowd clapped and Mr. Baker sat down...