Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with the reforming of the bad points of our dear enemy. Ridicule of our enemies has inevitably a sting which is absent from ridicule of ourselves. But it is all meant in good part, as simple fun, and after all, the puns and the really amusing illustrations that interrupt the sarcasm make it, as was intended, innocuous. The man who buys this number of the Lampoon, gets a great deal for his money, in space and in humor...
...present a student in Wisconsin University. Also E. B. Parsons of Yale will probably go to Athens with the team, although he has not decided definitely. As a whole the team is fairly representative, but many of the best athletes are in college and unwilling to interrupt their studies by the time required in a trip to Greece...
...money in trust for education in applied science the fullest accomplishment. Whatever the issue of these conferences may be--whether favorable to co-operation or unfavorable--it is not proposed, and has not been proposed, to separate instruction in applied science from Harvard University in any sense, nor to interrupt for a single year the continuity of the University's provision for such instruction...
...delegation, but will remain quietly at home and attend to her own affairs. Quite apart from political questions and whether one wishes to endorse the course of the government or not, it seems to an old Harvard man, like myself, entirely out of place for a great University to interrupt its work in order either to give some of its students a good time or to swell a political triumph. It is most important for a University to foster patriotism; but it will do this best by insisting that patriotism is to be identified with the good citizenship for which...