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During the Napoleonic wars, hardly any one in France ever spoke of Marshal Ney without calling him "the bravest of the brave." His gay reckless daring appealed to the people; they honored him with this epithet. Nowadays we do not speak of our generals in such terms. They fight by telephone, miles behind the line. We think of them, therefore, as resourceful, far-sighted, skilful, but as brave--almost never...
...little word "snobs" is getting to be as much misused as "socialist" or "liberal", and probably due to the fact that it has become a regular buffet-epithet in word wrangles. It remains, then, to clear away superfluous and incorrect meaning; and also to exonerate this often maligned college from any notorious connection with the term...
...time when the subject was first brought up the plans were so indefinite that the attitude of the Council might be laid to a too hasty examination of the methods, aims, and scope of the conference. A failure to reconsider the invitation, however, would more than justify the epithet of indifference generally and, we trust, erroneously applied to Harvard,--it would approach very near to rudeness...
...epithet "Big Three" in football came unsought for and unasked. So far as we may speak for the appellation we did not sponsor, the reason for it appears to consist in the fact that of all educational institutions who have consistently set forth teams of the highest caliber, there are no other three who have, by reason of an inevitable bond of sympathy shared in common, liked best to beat each other. --Yale Daily News...
...political and industrial theory, is being branded as revolutionary. Doubtless in times of over-fast development there are very real dangers incurred by the idle patter of "parlor bolshevists." But in times of reaction from liberalism such as the present there are still greater dangers in applying the epithet "parlor bolshevist" to anyone who dares assert an independent opinion. If this nation and the whole world do not watch their step carefully, the next decade will usher in a period of suppression on such a scale that in comparison the age of Metternich will appear as a mad whirl...