Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reflection that is cast on the Dramatic Club, and on the University as a whole, that these words which were once so unanimously the sincere praise of critics seem now like the bitterest irony? Granted, the Club may have openly changed its policy, but I think that Harvard still might expect from this organization the continuance of a tradition which played no small part in the making of Harvard University. Even if circumstances brought about the loss of Professor Baker and his guiding hand, the work which he inspired might better have been encouraged, rather than have been abandoned...
...could hope that an hour's meeting might give any specific or personal advice on an affair of such breadth. Plenty of sources are ready for the Freshman seeking counsel: the pamphlet which has been given him, his Freshman Advisor, the heads of the various departments all supply advice and information. If this morning he learns what concentration means, the purpose of the meeting is accomplished. In the last analysis it remains up to each student to gather together the facts of the subject and weigh them for himself. More than fostering a realization of this the meeting is unlikely...
...activity most in need of them: but that they be allowed to enjoy exercise. If some men like to play football in the spring, there is no justification for the stand that they should be made to go out for the lacrosse team simply so that team might have a winning season...
...heroes, not by many words, but with a few deeds less cheap. During the two days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last week−beneath the Emperor Napoleon's tremendous Arch of Triumph−the government suppressed and darkened every electric sign which might have profaned the scene. As thousands and tens of thousands filed past the bier, all night long the only light was that from funeral torches and the blue "Sacred Flame" which burns eternally beneath the Arch for the Unknown Soldier...
...Honduras or any other tropical country, army ants might have been used for the rat eradication. These insects travel in regular columns and with horrifying voracity eat every living thing in their paths−insects, mice, rats, snakes, even humans. Natives welcome the ants' arrival to their homes, merely moving out until the ants eat up all the household pests and march...