Word: long
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have to take a back seat now that the schedules of the spring sports have been published. The talk of "olderdown" games will have to be a relic of the past, for contests have been arranged with some of the best teams of the East, not to speak of long southern trips to Annapolis and Charlottesville for the baseball team, Washington and Norfolk for the tennis team, and matches at Cornell for the crew and the lacrosse team...
...University would like to feel that the present Freshman class is no exception to her rule of reliability and stick-to-it-iveness. But as long as the 1923 hockey squad evaporates at a snap of cold weather, Harvard will have to take it at its own valuation...
...with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take care of the millions as well as the pennies, the public funds will be in a large measure wasted. The periodic investigations...
...such a proposal. Prussianism! Military life to usurp the place of a happy life! Terrific expense to the Government! Many ejaculations of like nature sum up the arguments of the objectors. As yet the issue has not been placed directly before the country but it probably will be before long. In any event the arguments pro and con will not change appreciably; and the way the fires of disunion are breaking out today, it would not be impossible that people will clamor for universal training in order to protect the country...
...long training, the tense waiting, the terrible hours preceding the second battle of the Marne when the fate of civilization and the Allied cause hung in the balance are all described with an intensity and vigor which carries the reader along with the narrator. The story reaches its climax on November 11th, 1918, and the book concludes with a most entertaining chapter dealing with life and conditions in the Army of Occupation in conquered Germany and an appendix containing an imposing list of citations won by the M. C. Men of the 2nd Division...