Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...block as one sorority house are usually such light-o-love affairs that they have little or no effect on the student life of an institution. The trouble lies, as the Nebraskan will admit, in the fact that one engagement leads to another that once bitten does not always mean twice shy. "Many engagements are consummated merely because the girl wants the experience of being engaged"--so says the writer, thereby leaving the male volition entirely out of the question...
There are no available statistics to show how many marriages result from college engagements but if there were they would mean nothing. Higher education, properly speaking, has little to do with higher social education, although one may be obtained in the process of digging for the other. Popular fiction has over idealized scholastic matings. And now universities such as that for which the Nebraskan is the spokesman are faced with the problem of removing the gloss of idealism...
Denominal worship has been of necessity forced to play a minor part in active life of large educational institutions. This does not mean, however, that students are therefore less religious or that modern teaching methods tend to make them so. It means that religion has been relegated to one's own personal feeling and belief. Few will be able to read this series of talks and still remain under the impression that the spiritual has no place in the life of youth. It is possibly emphasized less than at certain previous periods but its presence is still very real...
...Wells '28 his true love and lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth, who continually interrupts the love making of this amourous couple. And shshsh! the villain, Ramon Pedro Jose etc, etc, etc, acted by George Higginson '27 ambassador and lieutenant of King Philipe of Spain, who don't mean right by our Nell! Ramon, scorned and repulsed, carries out to the best of his ability the commands of his King, as well he should do, and with cautious footstep and deep breathing he attempts to--but you'll have to see that for yourself...
These are situations which may mean much or nothing. To some, they will seem but flimsy foundations for the outbreak of war, but on just such frailties have wars been built. When once alight, the flame is hard to quench. Nothing could prove this more strikingly than the memories which this anniversary evokes. The wave of patriotism and of war-hysteria began in minor size, but, once started, it carried everything before...