Word: friction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent relations between Harvard and Princeton have been marked by a plethora of heat and a paucity of light. The basis of friction between certain groups in both universities lies deeper than the two Princeton, game issues of the Lampoon. The Crimson editorial of yesterday should make this a it closed incident. Friends can afford to be frank, only hypocrites need resort to simulation. In a spirit of mutual respect and absolute candor let us examine the cause of this unfortunate illfeeling and assess it in its true light. I believe that the chief causes of the present situation...
Four Causes for Friction...
...allow her devotion to scholarship to be subordinated to externals of habit, dress, and thought. I know Harvard men well enough to say that they are gentlemen and are opposed to discourtesy whether in the form of conceit or mistaken loyalty. In other words I believe that the present friction is the result of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and prejudice...
...removal of this friction I would suggest the following...
...Century. So many of them came and got rich that now the Germans control a major portion of the industry of Prague, though they number only about five per cent of its half million population. Remarked to my guide that such a situation must produce a good deal of friction between the Germans and the Czechs...