Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Above all art is manliness. Fritz Kreisler, the violinist, is subordinate to Fritz Kreisler, the man. And the artist who decides to surrender voluntarily contracts that would net him $100,000, because war conditions have made it hard for the parties contracting with him to fulfill their part of the bargains made, the artist who determines to live quietly in this country till war ends and to play only for charity and without compensation, compels at least a measure of admiration...
...that have most strongly supported the war against Germany because they best realized what a defeat from that nation would mean to the world. Enthusiastic support means work, and particularly cheerful work, both in the curriculum and in the military side of the university. Intelligent support means that each man is to prepare himself for the work for which he thinks. himself best fitted. In general, for the men here that signifies preparation for military-service. Daily Princeton
Another British push drives the Germans toward home, and the pessimists out of sight. The dispellers of cheerfulness had their day when Russia turned inside out, the Plave became No-Man's Land, and New York went back on Mitchel. Through the clouds of gloom, however, rays of optimism appear. The man who tells us the war is going to end in six months will now misinform us for a few weeks, and thereby satisfy his prophetic instincts. Ground for encouragement does exist, nevertheless, not on the tongue of the seer, but on Flanders mud, Allied union and American progress...
...well done. What the "H" is to the athlete, the Phi Beta Kappa key is to the scholar. Of the two the latter is the greater achievement, as comparatively few men go out for athletics whereas the entire University is eligible to this intellectual Society. The Phi Beta Kappa man wins his laurels by long hours in the Library, by hard, ceaseless labor. He is in training for three and four long years and his honor comes to him without glamor. The love of learning is what drives him on; there is no publicity; his a simple reward...
...hoodwink a country feller. Since William Hodge rang up a three-seasons' run in "The Man From Home," city chaps, wise guys and snobs have tried to spoof him, but William is spoof-proof. He is talking through his nose at the Majestic this week in a play called "A Cure For Curables," in which he makes considerable sport of his spoofers...