Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Cyrano's motto- "I have decided to excel in everything"-is more than mere bombast. His poetry is a celebration of the spirit. He is the enemy of cowardice, weakness, and stupidity. His white plume flies unsullied to the romantic-tragic end, although you must ask if it was worth his self sacrifice and emotional blindness...
...PHILOSOPHIZE. I will be read." An unusual contention for a college newspaper of the period, but nonetheless, this was the motto of the earliest version of today's Crimson--The Magenta, first published on January 24, 1873. Five of the six undergraduate newspapers founded in the Nineteenth Century had already folded the last, the Advocate, held a position of seemingly unchallengeable strength in the Harvard community, Nonetheless, a handful of undergraduates were willing to make the attempt, once more, to give the University a newspaper...
...leave to The Advocate a field which it is so well able to fill. By this action we feel that we shall not be abandoning the traditional policy of The Crimson, but shall rather be extending it and carrying it on as it stands epitomized in our motto, 'I won't philosophize and will be read...
...hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served as the motto of one of our predecessors,--"I won't philosophize, I will be read." January...
Last month Bob Erlam, publisher of the Whitehorse Star (whose mock-Latin motto is "Illegitimi non carborundum" or "Don't let the bastards grind you down"), decided that it was time to curb Valerie's ticketing. His solution: the deployment of an "antimeter maid" who would make the same circuit as Valerie, and feed almost expired meters with nickels instead of issuing tickets. Her wages (about $90 a week) and expenses would be paid by Erlam, Hougen's Ltd., a downtown department store, and contributions received from grateful nonticketed motorists...