Word: deal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Holcombe '06, who was to have had charge of the course during the second half year, is serving the national government in the Bureau of Efficiency at Washington and will not return to the University until next September. The lectures to be given by President Lowell will deal chiefly with the government of England...
...unnecessary to say that all night, or a fair part of it, the flute, bassoon will be respectively piped and strummed. 1917 does not celebrate often, but when it does it celebrates a great deal. Curfew shall not ring tonight...
...over the success of the war loan, and our later and yet more tempestuous lamentations that it was to fail, it has now been subscribed with a fat surplus. Again we have been true to our national character, for the American likes to talk, and he talks a great deal; but when he is put to doing a job which must be done, he does...
...worst, it is sufficient to say simply this: Either the camp is going to continue in practical conformation to original schedule or not. If it is, they have nothing to worry about, for they will get what they expected. If it isn't they have either learned a great deal which is of unforgettable value, or they haven't. If they have, they have nothing to worry about, for they are the possessors of wisdom. If they haven't, they are incontestably stupid, and would learn nothing from Hindenburg, Brusiloff, and Petain conducting a seminar...
Some people, whose sense of orderliness is all enveloping, have spent a great deal of time, much more worry, and a modicum of intelligence on the problem of what to call the present war. Quite irrespective of the fact that war is fought as a vital mode of justice to preserve the living age, rather than as a spectacle to be duly nominated and recorded in history, the more important fact remains that wars are not named by those who fight them...