Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sung by poets, when a man's house was his castle, a flintlock over the mantelpiece his artillery, and his neighbors and himself the defending army. At the call of the tocsin from every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally the embattled citizens failed to defend their castles with the utmost skill, and the foreign soldiery refused to melt at the psychological moment. However, excepting such minor failures...
...least will not devote itself to the ordinary process of education. If such rumors merit contradiction they may not only be contradicted, but repudiated, for the College would be unworthy of its traditions and its endowment if it ceased to carry on its proper work at a crisis like the present. The Freshman Halls, like all the other dormitories and academic buildings, will be open as usual, and the activities, especially of the freshman class, will go on without change...
...would like to see at once all men in the Corps who know anything about cooking. JAMES A. SHANNON. Captain, 11th Cavalry...
...them when he penned his imperishable odes. But that was probably because, being a poet, he was forced to content himself with a hand-me-down of a last winter's derby. Roses may wither, westerly zephyrs turn into wintry gales, blue spring days dissolve, but the straw hat, like the river and the youth of excelsiior, goes on forever...
...bygone years how well we have loved to bedeck them, the festive sailors, the insolent Panamas, with bright ribbons colored--like the Imperial flag--of red, white and black. They have been the resting place on which we could drape our honors. They have been wound with the ribboned laurels of our fame. They have served as heralds to the whole world of our success...