Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hillyer as the two speakers for the annual literary exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa will give the affair a requisite Harvard tinge and at the same time a wider significance, national and even international. They are notable additions to the list of Orators and Poets, which during the long existence of these exercise include many of Harvard's most eminent graduate...
...seems impossible that such cold blooded practices may be allowed for long in any civilised society, but the growing indifference to the rights of individuals at present noticeable in this country appears to admit of anything. The vigor with which the present offenders in the name of law and order are prosecuted may serve as an index to the extent that a respect for an order that is higher than law still remains in the United States...
...significant feature of the change is the relative permanency of the new secretaryships. Mr. McCord will be able to plan and execute a consistent policy throughout the whole period of transition, and even the student secretary will probably serve long enough to obtain a thorough grasp of the Union's affairs. As the first step in the reorganization essential to cooperation with the House Plan the action of the Graduate Board is both progressive and farsighted...
...presume that Mr. E. Waldo Long in his letter to the Transcript, still counts himself among those who excuse their acts on the grounds of puerility. At least, he leads us to think so when he attacks an editorial in the CRIMSON "as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults...
...doubt Mr. Long himself would not be unwilling to change his opinion of Harvard undergraduates were he to listen "to their comments on the CRIMSON article." They do not "dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books," but rather as the initial move in an attempt to clear away the "War Posters" from the walls of Widener...