Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about face in the Municipal Building. Something must be done for a joke is good only once, but this state of affairs cannot last all winter...
...star athlete, the cream of our young men, who have gone, but I do fear for the men who were discouraged because they could not make the first team, and sank back to become athletic slackers when they were in college because they thought they were not good nough. They consider themselves good enough to go and fight their country's battles, however, and we, with our old system of athletics, in which we placed the premium on the specialized expert, have really denied them the physical training that they find so necessary now. Why should they sacrifice their lives...
...building up his body. We shouldn't spend our time developing a man to jump six feet when we have a thousand men who can't jump four feet. One thousand men who can jump four feet are worth a dozen men who can jump six feet today. What good is you man if he can't get out of a trench by himself, and every man must be able to do that. We have men who cannot pull themselves up once on a horizontal bar, and we have those who can't raise themselves once on a parallel...
Students in good standing, living at a very considerable distance, have, on petition to the Recorder, been granted an extension of time at the beginning and end of the recess. No other students will be excused from any appointments...
Before we seize our satchels and dive into the subway to leave Cambridge for ten days of food and rest from nine o'clocks and other terrors of a college existence we should make sure that we have not forgotten to say Merry Christmas and good-bye to our friends among the fifty-one fortunates who are leaving us for Yaphank. These men are starting down the path that leads to commissions and France, and many of them may not have a chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await...