Word: live
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last decade there has been a steadily deepening conviction that dead languages are out of place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century...
...great misfortune is that we cannot keep two things in mind at once. We must educate for life. Very well. We must teach--the money making, livelihood-earning vocations. Good. But can a man or woman live by broad alone...
Messrs. Roger Amory 10 and R. P. Danner '13 write respectively on "Enthusiasm in Flying" and "Harvard Men Help Tommy in Mesopotamia." Though Mr. Amory gives us a satisfactory treatise, it is marred by occasional crudities in composition. It fails to arouse live interest in the reader. Mr. Danner does better, though he too is occasionally careless in his writing. Also, why does he call it "Harvard Men--"? There is absolutely no mention of a University organization or even of individual Harvard men. However, despite the article's shortcomings it is full of genuine interest and holds the attention...
...track team at present is in a predicament similar to the one just described. Nothing more than a live interest on the part of both undergraduates and graduates is needed to obviate the present difficulties. No other sport gives one so many thrills or has such moments of tense excitement as track. Whether it is an indoor meet or the intercollegiates at the Stadium, the spectators are assured at least one heart-breaking finish or a battle royal between two pole-vaulters. The imperative need today is a greater and more active support for the team. There are plenty...
...private pride must yield to higher national ends, so must national pride. I utterly reject as mumbo-jumbo any conception of American honor as a mysterious something distinct from the aggregate honor of American citizens. National traditions, ideals and honor live in the minds of people and nowhere else. Now, as members of the American partnership, we feel sorely humiliated by the Germans. Somehow we feel less moved by the greater indignities practiced by American partners on each other. It is so much easier to hate the foreigner. But if we are to steer with open eyes toward the goal...