Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still be our weakness now. The great army of the unwed which wins its victories by conscientiously filling the stomachs of others may well take heart, for though the Senior may be sitting and thinking, and dreaming of finals to be, the Freshman, far from being warned by his lot, is ever ready to learn from any tidy live heathen that turns up. And while the hardy perennials at Radcliffe seem to be attracting Harvard horticulturists in increasing numbers, there are still many connoisseurs likely to be attracted by the delicate buds of the night-blooming cereus...
Since the last quadrennial conflict, the censure of the public, and in some cases the Senatorial axe, has been the lot of the victor on whose laurels a golden tint predominated. Contributions clinked merrily into the coffers, rarely receiving the close attentions of other than minor attaches, until public sentiment has at last placed the receipt of money as well as its expenditure in the realm of the executive. No longer will the eye of leadership unswervingly be fixed upon the combat-it must often revert to the ammunition...
...There is hardly any need to comment on the Harvard backfield. Obviously you possess several brilliant runners and defense players composing a well balanced group. If Harvard continues to turn out the performance which it gave against us today I think it will cause a lot of worry this fall to any team in the East...
This is not an unreasonable conclusion in the face of the facts. The present generation of undergraduates is a self-opinionated lot, and as the years slip along into the mounting thirties, they will probably become more so. They know what they want, or think they do, and they're going to get it. They will not be led by the fashion of the moment. The bug of specialization has bit the colleges, and the average undergraduate is too firm in his own mind, or too solicitous for his own welfare to lavish time and ability on a multitude...
...effect on Smith sympathizers was one of satisfaction. But nailing a lie in a whispering campaign is much like nailing an ant on a rotten plank. The hammer blows shake out a lot of other ants and start them swarming furiously. A lot of the Brown Derby's best friends wished that the unhappy Warrior would leave lienailing to his assistants and confine himself to constructive campaigning...