Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many amusements are offered the tired college student as a relief from the constant round of toll. In the autumn there are the big games, in the winter debutante balls, and in the spring there is rowing and Revere. All such sports, indoor and outdoor, have their uses. But like many other things, they are temporary. The Crescent Garden will not suffice the ingenuous student's soul in January; nor the Somerset in June...
Bacon said, "Reading maketh a full man"--the Advocate should beware how it may increase its bulk, for, in an issue like the present, "padding" with "ads" would be like offering a supply of tooth-picks to a starving nation...
...present the transportation facilities of our railroads are entirely inadequate for such an emergency. In regard to the Chamberlain Bill he said that it provided for an enormous mass of semi-trained men without an adequate force of officers to properly direct the unmanageable numbers. It would be axactly like building a house and then constructing the scaffolding afterwards...
Among the most likely quarter-milers for this team are Acheson and Crim. The former has hitherto given most of his time to hurdling, but Moakley thinks that he should develop into a pretty good quarter-miler. He is a big, rangy fellow and has rigged physique. W. D. Crim, the best quarter-miler of the outfit, is being hard pressed by Acheson in the two and one-half lap races on the board track. Crim is showing up well this winter, though he is not as good on the boards as on the cinders. Another likely candidate for this...
...make a dirty little infidel out of my child," said Sunday, "I'd send him to one of these universities where they keep the Bible out of the curriculum. If the young men of Harvard had the least bit of encouragement, they'd be swept into the Kingdom like doves. There was once a great revival at Yale. Will it come at Harvard...