Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...idealistic. Some of them have been the pioneer spokemen in movements for civic betterment. Shall the CRIMSON chcose to stand aloof from this great national movement and let others do the fighting while it takes in the shekels which the brewers are so lavishly expending to stave off the evil...
...wise as to be able to say that one faction is altogether just, the other altogether evil. At such a time when all wisdom is clouded, and virtue takes on the appearance of sin, no single mind may declare the truth. One should hardly allow his partisanship, however earnest, nor his neutrality, however firm, to bind his liberality...
...happen did happen. The Harvard backs found themselves by the adverse conditions, and later, when positions were reversed, the Tigers found themselves in similar plight. But this, of course, offers no alibis for the fumbling of the ball on plays into the line. Both teams committed this fault, without evil effect, however, except in one instance, when a fumble by Casey stopped a brilliant Harvard advance, and at the same time threw the Princetonians, who had recovered the ovoid, loose into the open. Had the right back secured the ball, say Moore or Driggs, Harvard would have had a touchdown...
...occurs to me that far better either than the elimination of paid coaches or the abandonment of intercollegiate sport would be a constructive campaign designed to retain the good that arises from association of our seats of learning upon the field of sport, and to exercise the bad. That evil exists it would be absurd to deny, but there is an overbalancing weight of desirable features. Were Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania to enlist themselves in a body designed to place a limit upon the salaries of coaches, the number of coaches engaged, team expenses--in short...
...hold in highest esteem those who have given their lives for France, not because it was for France, but because it was their lives they gave. They are worthy of our full honor. He who dies for a cause, good or evil, lost or victorious, has done a great thing independent of the cause for which he died. He has paid the last full measure that...