Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect to either or both? If not, which? Does "concurrent jurisdiction" mean literally "running together"--like the blending of gin and vermouth? Or does it mean acting together, but one sovereign, like whiskey and soda? As far as we are able to see, "Nobody knows--and nobody seems to care." All we may do is to be philosophical like the valet, who tried to comfort his master in an agony of gout with the words: "It's not your fault, sir. You really cawn't help your constitution...
...World is taking itself too seriously," says Premier Nitti of Italy; and we think that perhaps he may be right. Our "ravelled sleeve of care" is in a more tattered state than Macbeth's ever was, so that something more than sleep will be needed to knit it up again. And even Hamlet's eminently just complaint that the times were out of joint would today be ranked as an improper understatement of the facts...
...chief source of income for the care of grounds and buildings, for the equipment of teams and crews, and for the conduct of sports, intercollegiate and intramural, is football. The abandonment of the customary football games for two years cut off our revenue, compelling us to pay most of such expenses which even in war time could not be avoided, with the receipts of the Yale and Princeton games in 1916. By the spring of 1919, with athletics reviving long before the means of paying for them, a deficit was inevitable. This deficit, however, was not so large...
...American Expeditionary Forces in France and Italy. Besides Mr. Hill's speech there will be a discussion of the business affairs of the Post. Members of the Post will have an opportunity to bring up any matters that they wish. The meeting will be open to all men who care to attend, but, as in former meetings, only members will be allowed to vote...
...actually harmed by going to college. Some are wholly spoiled. They forget whatever habits of industry they may have had and they cultivate extravagant tastes. If they were learning something the situation wouldn't be so bad, but usually they are the very ones who take the most care not to expose themselves to education for fear that they may catch...