Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after math of the World War has left the United States with certain people, whom consider courage now no longer necessary even to the military character, that timid disposition, and which are the natural defense of weakness should be the ruling power of government in the United States. They believe in sentimentality which is synonymous with idiocy; they are opposed to physical force for their own or others protection; they deny the reason for which governments exist. They believe pains from the moral source are the pains derived form the unfavorable sentiments of mankind. These pains are capable of rising...
...dodging philosophy with social science--such manoeuvres have yet to be listed on the Harvard schedule of courses. Philosophy, far from being dodged, is usually what might be called the aid to dodging, since Freshmen have found that there are more ways of removing the mathematical requirements than taking Math A. Applied geometry sounds fascinating one wonders where it is taught. But when the dramatic club, especially the Harvard Dramatic Club, is considered as an alternative to oratory words fail even the most staunch defender of the younger generation...
...great world if you weaken just a little" is undoubtedly one of the pernicious phrases which indicate the nation-wide slump in morals, the fearful after-math of the War. It wormed its way in to the unsuspicious midst of the Lampoon and the latter, suddenly becoming aware of this monster in a pill-box, has cast it forth with just indignation. The president in his statement certainly makes the spot on the Lampoon's scutcheon larger than it really is. To say that it had "maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable...