Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collier", in a recent cartoon in the Boston Herald, has suggested that crooks and yeggs are becoming more sociable; and that if they continue in their present ways of politeness they should have no trouble in "breaking into society". A hint that is timely for the Senior Yeggs who will be operating today on the embattled steps of Widener. So long as the graduating class must trespass upon the prerogative of banditry, it should do it in the most approved and up-to-date fashion. The Freshmen must not be cajoled by mid-Victorian methods; and the dignity...
...economic principles that they have a fond hope that, perhaps, college teaches men to do their part in straightening out (what the unionists consider) a rather tangled economic system; and when they find that the college chappies can only suggest improved ways of striking, they--why, they take the hint...
...advantage of this method are obvious; the money is voluntarily contributed; no inequalities are emphasized; and there is no hint of charity. Rather than the system endorsed by Princeton's vote, the goal of a university should be to have a large endowment and a small tuition fee the same...
...surrender of the higher academic interests, not to mention the surrender of moral principles. I speak of football because it is the one distinctively college sport and the one which arouses the greatest enthusiasm. The more reason, therefore, that we should keep it scrupulously free from every hint or suspicion of professionalism. We cannot say that this is so. Not a few of the most successful teams may be fairly described as technically within the law but grossly violating the spirit of college sport. The temptation has been too strong...
...catch-can" sport, or, in another metaphor, a case of dog eat dog. An S. P. C. G., now, might also help out. After all, the graduate has been taught to talk, to fill examination books to bursting, and to pour his vast knowledge forth at the least hint. Of course, he has not necessarily been told that he must express any original ideas or constructive theories--and this, mirabile dictu! may be what Mr. Morley is hinting at; in which case we shall be forced to accuse him of sareasm...