Word: handmaid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only excuse that the authorities have for instituting organized sport at these two universities again is that we find it necessary for the morale and good health of the college that the students should be urged to undertake athletic sports, and these sports will merely be the handmaid of military or navy training. We therefore enter organized sport not with the old purpose of defeating our hereditary rivals, but merely with the purpose of turning out men in the best physical condition to undergo the strain of modern warfare." The Yale News...
...simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have a large athletic club here named Harvard. On days when it rains the students read books"; or the famous description of Artemus Ward...