Word: cog
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
Henceforth the Japanese students and the scholar from Sweden or china will feel himself to be and will be an important cog in the University machinery. Athletics, class matters, business of undergraduate importance will mean more to him. He will find a new and untouched phase of college life...
...likes to see a man crawl out of the sewer and get up in the roof garden--not the man who is little because it is easy to be so. Study your capabilities! If God wants you to be an iron cog-wheel in the machinery of life, you will be better off the sooner you stop trying to be a steam whistle or a glaring searchlight...
...Yale Daily News, reaffirms the students' confidence in the ability of Coach Hinkey, and highly compliments the University football team. The article says: "There is not much to say about the game. Harvard had a better team, a wonderful team--a beautiful working machine without a weak cog, so smoothly running and so powerful that Yale was almost helpless, forgetful even of the gently art of tackling...