Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been the leader in this movement and it is from her that we have learned that it is possible to treat your opponents like friends, not like allen enemies. In the olden days football teams used to be quartered in some out-of-the-way town and then let loose on their opponents like gladiators in the Roman stadiums. This year Princeton gave up its clubs to our teams and showed us every possible courtesy, and the University players came back impressed and somewhat ashamed of the less cordial manner with which we have been wont to treat our visitors...
...this year, and the lessons we must learn from our dead. He showed how the men who have given their lives to their country teach us not only how to die, but also how to live. "The simile of one runner handing on the torch to the next, never letting the flame die out, is ever true," he declared, "and let us remember that the fewer the number remaining, the higher will mount the flame. I can see you young men reaching out with eager hands to take the torch...
...member of the R. O. T. C. who cannot appreciate what his assistance at the summer camp will mean, especially in the application of theory to practice. On Tuesday Colonel Azan found that the R. O. T. C. possessed enthusiasm, good will, and the spirit of discipline." Let him but find the men who attend the summer camp imbued with the same spirit, and he and Lieutenant Morize will be able to work wonders during the coming weeks of training...
Academic minds may argue that military drill is not precisely part of a liberal education as it is a physical and not a mental process. Let such persons take part in one maneuver and see if their mental activity is not greater than it would be in an I.D.R. class...
...last two years in the reorganization and enlargement of the Red Cross," said Eliot Wadsworth '98, vice-chairman of the National Red Cross and a member of the University Board of Overseers, when interviewed last night by a CRIMSON representative. "The University mustn't by any chance let another college get ahead of it in the present drive to support the Red Cross, and in supporting that organization in every way and keeping its work going at top pitch...