Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accustomed to the publicity our newspapers give to the private life of men in high positions and we pay very little attention to it. In the case of Mr. Wilson, however and his foreign mission the practice has been carried to an extreme. The most trivial incidents of his daily life, the most matter of fact circumstances connected with his reception have been advertised with brazen complacency. When the British offered him the only formal entertainment that could be extended to the head of a great nation, the papers made much of the royal treatment this "prince of democracy...
...conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life and but impedes the way for those behind. If a student is merely "getting by" he is a liability to himself and to the University whose advantages...
...known, this unit was the only British military organization of any kind which was commanded by Americans in the British service. The work of the unit was praised several times by British officers of high rank...
...touches or even ugly angles. This is illustrated in the imagistic verses, of which there are two rather ambitious contributions, "The Beggar" and "Lights and Snows"; also in the stories "Yestdo" and "The Glory Look". Nevertheless the workmanship of all these is distinctly good, and what is better, the high seriousness of the verse and the evident sincerity of the prose are joined to subject matter of enough interest and importance to seize even a careless reader. One would like to see in McLane's "Nocturne" reminiscences of Sappho, so simple and clear are the picture and the mood reflected...
...swimmers will meet Andover at Andover on February 8. Other meets which will be arranged for the Freshmen are with the Yale 1922, at New Haven, with Brookline High School, English High School, Huntington School, Boston Y. M. C. A. and the M. I. T. Freshmen...