Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...After all that's happened to me in the seven weeks since I left, it's a hard job to plunge into the middle of things and tell you what it's all like. As a matter of fact, this is a different world; part of the war zone, indeed, but unlike France, Poland and Mesopotamia (the places we all have read about in connection with the war), and so far apart from our own home civilization that I am tempted to follow the accepted American missionaries' principle that "it's no use trying to describe India...
...football code is different. The player who intentionally violates a rule is guilty of unfair play and un sportsman like tactics, and, whether or not he escapes being penalized, he brings discredit to the good name of the game it is his duty as a player to uphold. You may meet players and even coaches who will tell you that it is all right to hold or otherwise violate the rules if you do not get caught. This is the code that obtains among sneak thieves and pick-pockets...
...which will cover all cases of so-called professionalism unless there is a high spirit of honor among the candidates for teams. This spirit cannot be best fostered in an atmosphere of lavish expenditure, now considered necessary, owing to the nature of the rivalry above referred to. We should like to see Yale, in the near future, inaugurate a system of restraint upon such expenditures; but first we believe that only through a centralization of authority and control by the corporation of the University and through the faculty, with such undergraduate assistance as may be enlisted, can such reforms...
...some of the great universities of the world are still left to promote international good-feeling and tolerance. Oxford, Heidelberg and the Sorbonne are giving academic sanction to the cause of their own countries. German scholarship is found to be pedantic; French scholarship to be superficial. Most intellectual lights, like Sir Gilbert Murray and Gabriele d'Annunzio, have found their refuge in acquiescent, even enthusiastic patriotism. Some like Romain Rolland preach tolerance in a foreign country. Bertrand Russell and Maximilian Harden who insist on academic freedom reap only dishonor among their own people...
...eight Juniors and twenty-two Seniors are chosen. Thus the society is composed of thirty men from the Senior Class, and eight, the so-called "Junior Eight," from the Junior Class. Later in the year five more Seniors may receive election, and at the end of the year a like number of Seniors may again be admitted...