Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college sport," said Godfrey L. Cabot '82, president of the New England Aero Club, and a speaker at the banquet of the Aeronautical Society next week in the Union, in an interview yesterday, "is wholly impractical. Its prohibitive expense and its extreme danger should be enough to discourage even the thought...
...along the important trade routes. The vast majority of flying accidents are caused by the lack of good landing places. If, for example, it could be made possible for a pilot flying from Boston to New York to be never out of gliding distance of a sufficiently large and even landing ground the danger of the flight would be practically eliminated...
...country. "As I have travelled through this country, the outstanding impression which I have received is the self centred attitude of the population. They are wrapped up in their local politics; they are interested almost exclusively in their local affairs and don't seem to be concerned with or even appreciate international conditions which to me appear vitally necessary...
...final football mass meeting of the year last night, it was conclusively shown that the University is solidly behind the eleven. Two thousand men fought to squeeze their way into the Living Room of the Union. Not once this year has such enthusiasm been exhibited at a mass meeting. Even Coach R. T. Fisher '12, who witnessed the spirit of the days before the war, exclaimed that he had never seen the Union so jammed...
...this state we had a striking example only a few weeks ago of a vast majority of sober citizens refusing to be stampeded into doing something that was wrong, even by illusory promises. While it is by no means to be denied that some kinds of radicalism are fully as valuable and desirable as some kinds of conservatism, the people of Massachusetts showed that the kind of radicalism that was offered them was not the kind they wanted; and what was more, they purposed to show the country just where the great mass of the citizenry stood on the matter...