Word: lies
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...circumstances afford to lose. The material wastage annually is tabulated in billions of pounds. The human wastage cannot be computed. Statistics have been carefully gathered to show the extent of this drain on our national wealth. Contrary to the ignorant wisdom of proverb-mouthing fellows, figures do not lie. As a nation we must face without blindness the inevasible truth that the pleasure of alcohol has weakened sadly our strength...
...little republic of Cuba naturally places the people of Porto Rico in a difficult position. It is especially embarrassing for us Porto Rican students in this country, who are enjoying the hospitality of the American people and who cherish highly the personal friendships of its citizens, to have to lie idle while our classmates and friends are making war preparations. Our apparent indifference is so apt to be misunderstood and hastily labelled ungratefulness, especially as contrasted with the action taken by Cuba, that a few words of explanation may be pertinent...
...have entered into the great world-war. Behind must now lie that life of cultural progress which seemed to us only a few months ago our highest goal. It is to be expected that many men will be sent across the seas to fight with the allied nations upon the fields of France. No one should narrowly feel that he is fighting the battles of an alien people...
While it is proverbially difficult to enlist the interest of the undergraduate members of the University in anything that is called a lecture or a course of lectures which lie outside the curriculum, it is easy to draw audiences for well-known men who are fitted to speak on subjects of general interest. Such a speaker and such a subject are contained in the series of talks being given by Dr. A. T. Davison '06 on "The History and Development of Choral Music" in Huntington Hall, Boston. The public has already realized the opportunity of hearing one of the best...
...issue is a veritable nest of singing-birds. The two poems already mentioned well represent the creditable average of all this verse. One contribution, "The Fiddler," by Cuthbert Wright, rises distinctly above it in a certain sureness and aptness in dealing with a topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle Age," by Percival Reniers, has a poignant virtue...