Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have deeper ways of binding friendships now than with drink. We have surer tests of manhood than a Freshman's ability to stand up after eight highballs. We have more important things to do than get drunk once a week, once a month, or once...
There is no time to argue concerning the defied and immemorial right of men to get drunk when they want. There is no time to rant about the freedom of the individual; nor to sentimentalize poetically upon Dionysus. We are not fighting philosophers, demagogues, or poets. We are fighting a nation which allows no waste...
...this week from 1 to 2 o'clock, at which times C. Dunham '10 will be prepared to answer any questions from men who are undecided, as to what they should do in regard to military work. It is primarily for those who, because of physical disabilities can not get into the R. O. T. C. or any other branch of the regular service, that this bureau of information is being opened. Mr. Dunham will also be glad to advise other men as to what they are best fitted to do at this time. The office is installed only...
Every college graduating class for the last century or so has heard the appeal to take a live interest in public affairs and to get into the midst of political activities. How well the appeal is being answered appears in a recent study of the personnel of Congress, which shows 380 members of the present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale...
...Congress are state universities. Note also that such great universities as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania have only three representatives each, or no more than several of our smaller New England colleges can boast. The figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other's shoulders at a college fraternity reunion. Boston Herald...