Word: lures
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...point of view and disadvantages from the college side. It has been found at Princeton that the undergraduates were extremely restless, and that they were not satisfied to serve in Reserve Officers' Training Corps because that gave them no military credit in the eyes of the Government. Hence the lure of the Aviation Corps or the Navy or the ranks of the army. In so far as the new plan will hold these youths within collegiate walls, it is a step forward; in so far as it turns all our colleges into military academies, it is regrettable, however inevitable...
...with people who did not cross on the Mayflower. Yaphank has been greatly over-estimated as a jumping off place for the Lower World. It is not a Palm Beach, but it is two hours nearer to New York than that far-famed winter resort and the lure of the Metropolis is something to look forward to after all. The man who has weathered a Cambridge winter can pack up his ba-ba in the old kit bag and sneer at the terrors of a Yaphank winter...
...English and French ships, the War Lord looks for new cannon-food, new worlds to conquer. To pursue the elusive Fall River liners is Wilhelm's latest ambition; to shell Revere would terrorize the Americans,--would soon end the war. It is indeed a rosy picture with which to lure on the terrible Teuton...
...denied that our indolent college life, with its short-cuts to pleasure, with the ease of spending an evening at the theatre or idling away an afternoon in chatter and smoke, is an open temptation to passing pleasures. We must be unusually strong if these wayside temptations do not lure us aside, leaving upon our characters the indelible imprint of a flabby character...
...most pleasing and successful part of the magazine is its cover an artistic photograph of the facade Widener Library, taken by moonlight by R. H. Norweb '16. Even the diabocal printer, with all his little devils, he failed in his attempt to lure from the skilful piece of photography its beauty and grace. It is an unusual and inspiring view of the great hall of tomes...