Word: gone
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale crew will also begin practice on the Thames this afternoon. The crew at New Haven this year will be a tried boat which has already shown its power. Coach Nickalls has gone at his work this year with unprecedented directness and has turned out a boat containing only three veterans, which bids fair to give a race certainly equal to that which the wearers of the blue exhibited last year. The men have had their difficulties with rough water this year, and welcome the opportunities which they will now have
...University's critics frequently cry loudly that Harvard has forgotten its inclusive character and gone into one camp or another. Several years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations...
...killing the grass. Already the Yard has become riddled with unsightly short-cuts, with many more in an embryonic state. So little effort need be expended in turning aside to the ever-present path, that it seems unfortunate to mar the greensward. Now that most of the trees are gone, the grass is the Yard's chief natural adornment. A feeble will and a cowlike fondness for meandering, these things are destructive to beauty. Keep to the firm gravel track, and spare the tender bladelets...
...recent Advocate prize poem, "Gott Mit Uns," and censored both Harvard and President Lowell for fostering a "spirit of unmitigated hostility toward Germany. Professor Meyer characterizes the poem as "damnable," and states that Harvard has "silently connived at its wide circulation in the press." Harvard has "wantonly and wickedly gone out of its way to carry strife into the hallowed peace of the academic world," while the University and its President "stand branded before the world and posterity as abetters of international animosity, and traitors to the sacred cause of humanity...
...that from the end of the spring recess to the beginning of the finals is only a little over five weeks. Then he considers that when he gets home for his "Easter vacation," Easter is a thing of the past, his friends from other colleges will have long since gone back, and his home town will be a deserted village. Then he sighs and marvels at the psychology that moves the powers...