Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brooklyn Ice Palace is on the corner of Atlantic and Bedford avenues. The following is the best way to get there from the Grand Central Station...
...Get off at Nostrand avenue, and walk back one block to Bedford avenue...
...receive their blanks by tomorrow evening may get them at the CRIMSON Building or from T.H. Gammack '20, D. C. Hawkins '20 or W. J. Louderback '20 at 60 Mt. Auburn street. All men who have at any time been connected with the Class of 1920 are eligible to attend the dance, and should notify one of the above members of the committee at once...
Plato despised the Sophists, who taught for pay, but the conditions Plato dealt with were not like those of today. Nowadays teachers are not isolated individuals who roam the streets offering their learning for what they can get. They are members of institutions and it is the privilege of these as such to undertake nothing less than the decent support of their teachers...
...Getting by" is the advance poster of this lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race...