Word: ear
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...learned by experience in France that the practice of drinking, if not carried to excess, produces no harmful effect. Perhaps the "no beer, no work" slogan has reached the President and has indicated to him that the laboring class craves its slightly harmful satisfaction. Perhaps Mr. Wilson has an ear to the ground for the coming 1920 elections. Who knows...
...start a new publication, especially when this new publication, especially when this new effort shows that literary ability still exists among the undergraduates and instructors. The genuine Magazine contains better fiction and as good verse as the College has been offered in a long time. It has the ear-marks of a successful literary paper. But the editors, who fail to make themselves known, have lowered their standard in the story entitled. "The New Romance" to a most unworthy level. They must avoid such crudities if they aspire truly to represent the University...
...wider distribution seeks to accomplish. We question whether a one-track mind would not result, an intellect which has but one interest and one accomplishment. What the University seeks to develop by its laissez faire policy is the versatility of mind which will embrace many fields, which eagerly gives ear to new opinions, which analyses, and holds dear its criterion of right and wrong...
...wondered but a moment, and then I knew, I knew the same uproar was sounding in every ear from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Niagara to the Gulf, and that it proclaimed the first rounded twelve-month of our Nation's share in the war for civilization. I knew it was our notice to the world that all we had done in this thrice-busiest year of our Nation's life is but a beginning of what we shall do. It was Paul Jones's cry from the deck of the Bonhomme Richard, magnified by steam...
...first advice received by the University military authorities as to the proximity of the inspection came in the form of a telegram to Major Flynn ear- ly yesterday morning, when Captain McDonell wired that he would arrive on Monday, March 25, to inspect the records of the Corps; the men and the equipment. This accounts for the sudden announcement of the inspection by the Headquarters Office yesterday in order to allow the men of the First Battalion an opportunity to prepare their uniforms and other articles of equipment for the ceremony this afternoon...