Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University's prospects in the meets with these two rivals are problematical. It seems probable that at least the Blue, the chances will be very nearly even. Both squads are handicapped by the loss of many former stars; neither can rely absolutely on this year's material. Princeton will be a more difficult problem...
...those who neglect the less exact sciences, a word of warning. When the war is over a period of reconstruction will come, unparalleled in the world's history. This will be a world Renaissance, and even so far as the arts of the world are now dragging in the dust, so then they will be raised to a standard as high as they are now low. The engineer and the architect will rebuild broken material Europe, the teacher, the philosopher, the sociologist and the journalist must rebuild the minds of the nations, downtrodden in the struggle with a material might...
Some of our soldiers disabled in action have already been sent home from the war zone to the United States and their numbers will be constantly augmented as the war proceeds. Our obligation to these men does not cease with their discharge from the hospital or even with the payment of their war insurance. We are moved to assist them to start an active and useful life from new beginnings not only by ordinary humanity, but by the confidence with which the men already crippled look to us for aid in this discouraging under-taking. Provision is already being made...
...foist upon a class that is compelled to listen to him opinions on subjects outside of the field of his special competence, but this is a minor point, not actually calling for discipline. As a man, he is bound to have opinions on other subjects than his own, and even though these opinions may in the judgment of most of his colleagues be injudicious and injurious to the institution of learning of which he is a member, it is still dangerous to place restrictions upon his uttering them outside of the class room. Men of ability will not enter...
...necessary. Advertising sheets, commonly called newspapers, have persistently fostered the vicious idea that there are no non-essential industries, and have successfully defended a "laissez faire" policy with respect to their own profiteering. There have also been strikes and threats of strikes on the part of various labor organizations, even against the better wisdom and advice of their national organizations...