Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Women, the war, athletics, and personalities comprise the range of subjects. Among the first named, virtue is apparently unknown. The weaker sex is subject to slandering remarks whose sole aim is to fill a gap in the conversation. When the talk wanders to the war, someone says "I hope those damned ------ get licked," and the subject is closed. Even on athletics where the interest is keenest, desultory remarks and blasphemies on Yale are the main element. Interspersing everything are biting personalities on another's physical or mental qualities. A tone of affected cynicism crowns the whole...
...hope that this tragic situation--the catastrophe of greatness, induced, partly, at least through the faults of its virtues--will have a solution worthy of the noble ideals that sustained Germany's upward flight. Let us hope that it will lead to the purging, purifying, and strengthening of German greatness through this fearful trial. A letter received recently from a German judge, now fighting as lieutenant on the Russian frontier, points to such a hope. He writes: 'The conduct of our men in this war is beyond all praise. Whatever may be the outcome of the war, the German people...
...named there are the two Harvard units. Beyond those in hospital work there are, of course, the Harvard men in the Ambulance service, those actually engaged in the war, and those in the diplomatic services. The number is creditable and the work such as we know it, has, we hope, been of some aid and support, along the best lines of endeavor. The effort is certainly praiseworthy. But before closing let me say that there is much yet to be done, that the opportunity for helping is limitless, and that, to those who have gone over, the reward has been...
...view. While the authorities might not interfere with the construction of the stands, the Association is unwilling to violate the law by proceeding with the erection without the permit which the statute requires. Instead of proposing a violation of the law, we are trying to avoid it, and we hope that some solution of the difficulty may be found. FRED W. MOORE '93, Graduate Treasurer...
...Parson '16, No. 6, of Providence, prepared at Hope Street High School. He rowed on his Freshman crew and on the University last year. He is 21 years old, 6 feet, 2 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 180 pounds...