Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan which the Faculty has announced very wisely endeavors to obtain the desired result by a minimum of compulsion and a maximum of willing co-operation. The use of sports as a medium of exercise lends much attractiveness to what otherwise might prove an irksome task. The three hours of physical training required each week will not be a mere burden to Freshmen, but will amply repay them both mentally and physically. This fact the Freshmen should recognize, to the exclusion of the idea that it is "compulsory." In short, when finally approved by the Board of Governors, the introduction...
...English Labor Party has denounced the Peace Treaty. It finds the drastic terms out of tune with these liberal times. This is true. But they are in harmony with the spirit of the nation upon which they are to be enforced. Germany has learned a language of might and of indemnities. She has not yet comprehended defeat because the strong arm of the invader has not yet been felt. The dinners in Paris have been postponed not cancelled. Ultimately there will be victory and punishment for the accursed Americans...
...planned to be essentially sport and fun, rather than routine and drill. There is no idea of having it supplant organized athletics among the Freshmen, but rather it shall supplement them, in that it will bring the majority of men out for teams, and thus supply material which otherwise might never be discovered...
Memorial Day this year, we must meet with mixed emotions: joy because the war has been brought to a victorious conclusion, inevitable sorrow, for the friends and long list of fellow students who died that we might once more live in peace. But beyond any feeling of happiness or sadness we may have, there must be paramount in our minds, a deeper sense of the high task which these men who died have bequeathed to us as living citizens of a world no longer at war. For it is our duty to live for the same cause for which they...
...University may live to receive notices from "U4" stating that on and after a given date no lecture will be held until further notice owing to a sympathetic strike called by the faculty favoring the Boiler-makers Union. Such a possibility recalls those medieval days when a professor might find a notice in his lecture room stating that the students refused to attend or reimburse the dominus until he agreed to certain terms. It has taken almost a millennium to turn the tables, yet today we face the fact...