Word: mute
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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James Russell Lowell was a product of Harvard, brought up in an atmosphere which unconsciously makes for a strong and enduring devotion to the nation. All one need do is look around him to find where Harvard gets these traditions. The Washington Elm, Soldiers Field, Memorial Hall, are mute testimonials of the part Harvard and Cambridge have played in the national crises of the past...
...announcement of the second series of training camps for officers recalls to mind that murmuring concerning injustice in selecting candidates for the first series are still echoing. Those many confident and by no means mute aspirants whose confidence in their own ability surpassed the examining officers' confidence in that same intangible quality, are still unshakably convinced that they were harshly treated by an unsympathetic government...
...Beta Kappa in establishing a trophy to be competed for by the preparatory schools of the country, with standing in the entrance examinations as the basis for awarding the trophy, the Philadelphia Public Ledger says, "The scheme displays a praiseworthy concern that scholarly merit should not hide its mute, inglorious light under a bushel; it remains to be seen whether it is able to develop even a respectable rivalry with the natural interest boys and young men feel in competitive physical exercise. The hero in school or college life today is the captain of the eleven, the nine, the crew...