Word: emblemmed
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...easy to contemplate. It would stand at the entrance to the Freshman halls a constant reminder to the entering classes of the greatness of the University. It would face the athletic field and river where Harvard teams and crews would see it daily as the heroic image of the emblem they strive to win. And it would look across the intervening buildings to the Square, the Yard, and Memorial Hall, and all the spots of Harvard tradition and proclaim to all who behold it the presence of Harvard...
...editorial entitled "Greater Ireland," it appears that aspersions cast upon the Union Jack in America are regarded as more important and less friendly than the trampling on the Stars and Stripes by students of McGill University in Canada two weeks ago, and the similar defiling of this country's emblem by sailors of the British Navy over a year ago in Bermuda. Perhaps gross ignorance of what is going on in the world is responsible for the CRIMSON's attitude. If not, what can be its significance, unless it is merely another manifestation of convenient forgetfulness...
Canadian and Canadian newspapers will naturally find it difficult not to resent keenly the action of this gutter element among our nearest neighbors at the expense of an emblem which means a good deal to us. But we should realize that the insult is less to the British flag than to the United States itself...
...same hands that are now so busy tearing down and defiling the national emblem of America's greatest ally and would-be warmest friend were the busiest in their endeavors to frustrate America's own efforts in the Great War. The same spirit tramples the Union Jack in a New York gutter that stoned American soldiers on their way to fight for America's safety beyond the seas...
...hundred undergraduates, attired in ancient Greek costumes and carrying rose bowls, in imitation of Greek, vases, paraded through the ton despite the cold weather. In the midst of the procession marched a student in the garb of a Greek priest, carrying an urn of red hot ashes, as an emblem of cremation. At the head of the procession was borne a long streamer of white and blue, the Greek national colors...