Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Humanist is that the Humanist is all wrong, while the continuous cry of the Humanist is that the Modernists are fools. Proceeding this way, nothing will be accomplished. It is time for humility to play its part. Let both sides admit that reform is needed and then get together to see what can be offered to solve the difficulty...
...been said in some newspapers which claimed to be quoting one of our athletic heads, that interest in rowing here was entirely negligible. Judging by numbers, this is doubtless true. But it is obviously hard to get men out during the winter to row on the monotonous machines when there is small prospect of there being any crew worth while making. Everybody says that during war time it is the duty of the colleges to keep the maximum number of men at athletics in order to improve their physical condition. By dropping intercollegiate athletics so suddenly the colleges have gone...
...ordinary task to publish a University Register in a normal year. That little red volume has always represented the sweat of a great many editorial brows. And so at the beginning of this college year it seemed impossible to get out this book in any sort of shape. The Board, however, was very reluctant to break the continuity of such a time-honored series, and it was decided to make the best of trials. The 1917-18 Register comes out today, which is a little late as Registers go, but a hasty perusal of it will soften any wrath because...
...will stay up as late. Many of the reasons for staying up are already gone, and those few "parties" not yet adapted to the new order of things soon will be. Individually, it depends much on will power, and men able to get up for early drill are able to go to bed earlier...
...gone on have been as big and vigorous as ever. He has had the comforts that men in service consider luxuries. He has had a good bed, plenty of tobacco and shower baths. The Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier. At Plattsburg and at Barre last summer he did it, and it didn't hurt...