Word: long
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practical joker is a man to be endured only so long as he keeps within the bounds of decency. He may be cordially disliked all this time, but that is as far as his punishment can go. There is a line, however, which this joker may not cross and remain the same harmless though tiresome person. Once he has traversed this Rubicon, he subjects himself to punitive treatment...
Mine were quite well-intentioned motives in perpetrating this airy and cloud-like "pedagogical debate." It seemed to me that there was more than one defect worthy of attention in our system of education; it seemed to me that collegiate opinion on matters of vital importance had for too long a time been moribund; it seemed to me that it was the duty of those who remained at home to exert themselves in their feeble or feeble-minded way in an effort to solve one of the many problems that will confront them after the war; but in all this...
...order of the Commandant. P. W. LONG, Captain and Adjutant. April...
...order of the Commandant. P. W. LONG, Captain and Adjutant...
...required two-thirds. If Massachusetts had followed New York and temporized, the wet forces might have stood some chance, but the example of the conservative Bay State will be of overwhelming value to the "drys". John Barleycorn's reign will soon be over, but at least it has been long and merry...