Word: knife
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...June, 1916. Many of the old practices are happily,--and unfortunately done away with. The Seniors no longer dance around the Class Tree, the Ivy Orator has nothing to do with the planting of vines; the ugliest man in the class is no longer presented with a jack knife. We trust, however, that the spirit is much the same today in the University as it was in the College of a century...
...saying that all is fair in war. But such tricks are of the fairness of the red Indian, to whom treachery was often synonomous with honor. Conflict seems to be losing even that poor show of mercy which has been practised in other less bitter wars. "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt...
...Half an Hour" drives home a bitter little morsel of truth on the end of a sharp knife in three quick stabs. The wife closes the hated book of her married life to go with her lover. Their meeting is all the happiness of life compassed in a moment of anticipation. Then in stunning suddenness comes the lover's death, and as a long-drawn, searing after-pain the wife's turning back to take up again the despised existence of thirty minutes before. True, splendidly characterized and theatrically dramatic in the best sense, "Half an Hour" sets...
...mere knowledge of the Pythagorean triangle relation or the binomial theorem is probably of less immediate value to the average graduate than the knowledge of how to sharpen a knife or to sew on a button," Dr. Moritz writes. "But has an exercise in fundamental thought processes they are invaluable to every individual, no matter what his ultimate work in life may happen...
HARVARD MATHEMATICAL CLUB. "The Shoe-maker's Knife." Professor J. L. Coolidge. Common Room, Conant Hall...