Word: dead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last decade there has been a steadily deepening conviction that dead languages are out of place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century...
...long ago that the Harvard authorities prevented the widow of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington from speaking in the college building, though it allowed men like Scott Nearing to use the same hall but a year before--because she was likely to make remarks about the treatment of her dead husband in the course of her speech that would be derogatory to another of our possible future allies. Well known citizens and respected professors such as Ralph Barton Perry and Albert Bushnell Hart have given quite free rein to their own opinions, though they were definitely pro-ally--and it is right...
...high jump was closely contested and M. Noble '17 was pushed to five feet seven inches. The feature event of the day was the seven-lap scratch race. A. R. Bancroft '17 and J. D. Hutchinson '19 fought it out to the finish, and crossed the line in a dead heat...
...inevitable tell us that our country must go into it from motives of humanity. "Remember our murdered citizens," is the cry. Yes, let us throw ourselves into the conflict and avenge the death of these blockade-runners by the sacrifice of a thousand times their number--doubtless the dead will rest easier in their graves. I us retaliate for our loss of ships by offering our entire merchant marine, out of the war-zone as well as in, as food for submarines. Let us paralyze our country's life and ideals by adopting universal military service--by all means...
Will come this dread question, 'O, what did we do for our dead?" MONTGOMERY S. LEWIS '11, Indianapolis...