Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thine own self be true" is the one sentiment which can be relied upon to strike an answering chord in every breast. The laudable idea of the poet may have been that we should not lie, thieve or otherwise misbehave at the urging of another; but in actual practice his exhortation is used to justify all manner of eccentricities and even crimes...
Important athletic contests have been in the past a convenient excuse for forgetting. On the morning of a Harvard-Yale game anyone might disregard a commission with impunity, since his mind was taken up solely with the idea of getting to Soldiers Field. There are many in the University who have performed their duty in one respect, so they have a weighty commission to execute. We refer to the support of the Y. M. C. A. fund. The game in the Stadium this afternoon will not be a valid reason for any undergraduate mental lapses about this duty...
...have day after day attempted to give the University some idea as to the state of affairs in Russia; we have published the ideas of Trotsky and the Bolshevikis and conscientiously done our best to keep the undergraduates posted as to who's who in Petrograd. Yet by the time the CRIMSON reaches its readers, the whole situation has changed. The trouble is that the Russians can arrange a revolution in less time than a newspaper can go to press,--they are faster than the Mexicans. So we give up, and until definite news has reached us that one party...
...stiff workout yesterday for the informal University eleven. Only once was the ball put across for a touchdown during the entire practice, when Cannell scored on the last play by a five-yard line drive. The team, however, did not play with a view to scoring, but with the idea of correcting weak points in both elevens...
...college life on a normal, peace-time basis we must have hard-working, conscientious officers. Theirs is no easy task; they have as much work to carry on as their predecessor, yet with only half the old number of assistants. So we must get out of our heads the idea that these elections are merely a formality. Good officers and a respected class go hand in hand...