Word: clingingly
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...plan as briefly outlined provides for a clear cut and sharply defined division of the Stadium into two groups: one containing those who are not for Harvard because of their sympathy for the opponent or because of their coral balance of in cling the other only real Harvard men. I believe that only some even scaling arrangement in the Stadium will satisfy the student body...
...campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning world outside...
...conservative and say) neutral terms. Therefore my mind has a vague, ghostlike, untrue conception of a creature stamped "Harvard man" I fully realize how absurd my idea is, yet an idea is an idea and when it is stamped on the brain, well, it is bound to cling more or less. I really an scared I might get a Harvard mannerism, to be definite, and that is why Cambridge is taboo land...
...game of the whole hog or none. Still more concessions have been made by the Democrats, until their party pride has been stretched to the limit. A substitute for article ten, of almost the identical meaning as the original Lodge reservation, has been proposed. Still the Republicans cling to their rhetoric and refuse to budge an inch...
...friends, the radicals, are organized and working to the best of their ability; the only sane thing to be done, then, is for the rest of us--stodgy old fools--who still cling to the belief that before you tear down you must be ready to build up once more--to organize as well, and thereby set a few back-fires...