Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your editorial, "A Crew's Cruise," of April 30th was unique, astounding, and utterly stupid. You snatched at the opportunity to thump the University crew and the coach. . You said "the Freshmen would naturally be the easiest opponents the crew will meet this year". But Freshman crews have been known to break intercollegiate records; and if you have any doubts as to the unusual power and skill of this Freshman crew, I must suppose that you did not even see the race. Because the Freshmen defeated the University you cried "Something is obviously wrong,"--while like most poor critics...
...mile and seven-eighths distance in sadly slow time, the University crew, for the first time in at least three years, trailed the Freshman eight by three lengths. This is a statement of fact sufficiently startling, but when it is considered that the Freshmen would naturally be the easiest opponents the crew will meet this year, it is evident that the chances of winning any future races remain no longer on the laps of the high gods--they have tumbled off. Something is obviously wrong...
Like Sisyphus, who never quite arrived, too many men find themselves after years of exacting work, wondering why they chose their occupations as they did. Usually, the answer is that they did not choose. They happened in to whatever was most convenient, or seemed easiest, or appeared to pay most. And this acceptance of what the Gods may send in general. Even at this late hour, probably half of the Seniors do not know what they really want to do for the rest of their lives. Even students in the graduate schools have not necessarily committed themselves yet: often...
...made his voice heard since that time, but in the present year of the Republic the shoe is on the other foot. Whereas before it has been dangerous in the extreme to knock the existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used to cherish the vague idea that everything was all right it now cries with a morbid glee that Heaven and Earth and Hell thereunder are all hopelessly out of joint with no chance...
...Time is limited; the man for whom exercise is now particular pleasure does not always find it easy break into the afternoon for a game of tennis or squash or a row on the river; often, too, it is difficult to find partners or facilities. The temptation of the easiest way is to let exercise slip, or to put up with the old-man's expedient of walking or the much-vaunted "daily dozen," which fit more easily into the day's routine. The result, too often, is the sad spectacle of a fine mind or able character wasted...