Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...West does not want war. And even in New England, saturated as it is with British influence, I have not yet been jostled by a young American rushing to the colors to defend other people's interests. If only our older compatriots, weak of loins but mighty of mouth and pen, could be induced to go to the front and put their noble words into action, I think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags in front of University Hall mean...
...Exeter goal, who made 12 stops in the first half, gave way before a more strenuous bombardment by the second team forwards. Another factor in Exeter's defeat was the retirement of Captain White, who was compelled to withdraw in the first half after being hit in the mouth by the puck...
...powerful and independent spirit, apt more to excite awe than to invite friendly or filial attachment. But whatever the qualities that go to the making of a college "celebrity" they are sure to be of the kind that compel affection. Such a man teaches not alone by word of mouth. He instructs as much by his example of manhood, by the standard of his tastes. He is something more than an instructor; he is an influence...
This morning comes the news that Yale University has met the requirements of the War Department in regard to the Training Units and that the official order establishing units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at that institution will go into effect this mouth. The Yale Battalion, like the Harvard Regiment, is to be disbanded, but the work already done by its members will count toward a commission in the Reserve Corps. In addition the new course, which is to be under the direction of Colonel Danforth, U. S. A., former commander of the Yale Battalion, will count toward...
...Burleigh, Hale, Fernald, Peters, McGillicuddy, Guernsey, and Cobb; Combles was called a town in France, also a place in Roumania; Thomas Mott Osborne was given the titles of ex-convict and novel writer; Bucharest was located on four continents, six countries in Europe and as a city on the mouth of a river in India; Mr. Marshall was named as a United States senator and the greatest justice of the Supreme Court; Mr. Lansing was an ambassador variously to England, France and Mexico; Ty Cobb, a freshman said, was an ex-governor of Maine; another called him "greatest baseball twirler...