Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Supposing that a complete reduction of armaments--land as well as naval--were possible, would that mean that we had made an end of war? The answer is in the negative. In the first place we have but to look back on the recent war to see that science has so far progressed that even if every battleship were sunk and every piece of ordinance scrapped, no nation would be rendered impotent to attack its neighbor. Gas and airplanes and innumerable other modern instruments of destruction, the manufacture of which can not be subject to control, would remain. Not only...
First of all, everybody sing! And mean what you sing! Open your mouths wide and make as much noise as you can! If you can't keep the tune, never mind; sing anyway! And shout whenever you have the chance--especially the three "fights" in Soldiers Field, the "Hi, hi" in Veritas, and the "fight" in Harvardiana...
...technical points that make all the difference between a dull, heavy roar and spirited singing. Roll every r: "rrrip 'em thrrrough!" And sing as staccato as possible by putting an h before each vowel. Really "Hit the line for Harvard;" make "The cheers frrrom the Harvard hosts rrring high" mean something; and on the last line of the Marseillaise don't sing a feeble "Anon to victory," but a short, snappy prophetic: "hon hon to victory." ABBOTT LOW MOFFAT...
...goes without saying that prophecies, based merely on past records, mean very little. Yet last Saturday's game in the Bowl is not entirely without significance. It shows that Yale is especially strong this year. To defeat her Harvard must play much better football and its team must have much better support...
...that Yale trains for citizenship while Harvard trains for scholarship. No doubt this statement is intended somewhat as a slur, and our first impulse is to deny its truth. But second thought suggests that perhaps it is more complimentary than was intended. The question is, simply, What do we mean by citizenship...