Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only students, but hundreds of thousands of men who earn their living by travelling, lose a vote enlightened by wider observation of conditions than is possible to their stay-at-home neighbors. But the solution does not lie in permitting them to vote wherever they may happen to be, even for President. The voters of Cambridge will on next Tuesday cast a ballot not for the Presidential nominee, but for an elector pledged to vote for a certain Presidential nominee, and for electors at large from the state. The elector chosen for the district in which the University is situated...
...many know even the location of the Washington Elm, of Oliver Wendell Holmes birthplace, of Wadsworth House, of Longfellow's old home? How many realize that there is a sacred significance in the name that has been degraded to "Mem" or that the title "Soldiers Field" was intended to be more than a mere designation of Harvard's athletic grounds...
...number includes three pieces of verse, only one of which contains anything remotely resembling even lukewarm tar. Mr. Rickaby's sonnet about the clash and reconciliation of his Muse and his Love, though smooth enough, is cloyed with pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something...
...considerable measure to the large and constant growth of the number of men who participate in athletics. In 1914, 1,472 men were so engaged; in 1915 the number had grown to 1,847. Everyone who desires is now given an opportunity to work on a squad, even though he stands the smallest chance of ever making a University team. Valuable as this policy undoubtedly is, more athletes mean more athletic supplies, more coaches, and consequently larger expenses...
This assertion is so obviously illogical and even ridiculous that it scarcely deserves an answer. He is not only thus characterizing Harvard University but, in the event of a Republican victory in November, the majority of the voters of this country. HOYT SHERMAN...