Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thought such childish pranks had ceased to exist at the University. An undergraduate at Harvard is treated as a man, not as an infant. But though excuses may be made for these baby battlers on the grounds of youth, none can be offered for this last affair...
...thinking men--and that includes undergraduates--have a difficult but a great duty to perform; that is, to preserve reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest. If we fight it will be to maintain our rights as a sovereign nation with honor and dignity; our aim will be to prevent our rights from violation in the future...
...last two weeks have been a blot on the record of the Class of 1917 and a disgrace to Harvard College. For a long period of years the most important of undergraduate elections have maintained a tone of dignity and have been naturally free of clashes resulting from childish suspicions of unfair nominations...
...profit, and furnishes club accommodations for sixteen hundred men. It is, unfortunately, in the anomalous position of serving the entire University, and yet being supported as a private club. The CRIMSON will gladly print sane expressions of opinion on the question of compulsory membership,--but no more such childish and destructive comments as that appearing today...
...sport were as harmless as it is childish, only personal preference would have to be consulted. But serious damage, not only to apparel, but more important, to valuable portraits has been done through mere thoughtlessness. Such ill-judged zeal should not be tolerated, even under the guise of college spirit...