Word: naming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...belief of the Committee is that a Harvard Endowment Fund, to be worthy of the name, must be so large as to yield a most substantial income for the unrestricted use of the University. To reach the large figures necessary the appeal will be country-wide. It will ultimately include practically every living graduate and the innumerable friends of the University. Especially is giving on a small scale to be encouraged. The University has heretofore been criticized for not sufficiently encouraging the small giver. If such has been the case, it has been due to a lack of system rather...
This bunch of cowardly traitors, although happily few in number, constitute a real menace to the fair name of Harvard, and the sooner they are ridiculed into silence the better off the University will be. So here's to the Jester, and may he continue with every success the good work so admirably begun in defence of our country and College. CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT...
...generous CRIMSON, with its profession of patriotism, has said recently of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality in an editorial entitled "Worse Than Slackers": "Suddenly a new group in opposition to Harvard prepared has arisen. It is called the Harvard Union for American Neutrality, a high-sounding idealistic name which successfully clothes the real spirit of this unfortunate movement...
...such terms as could be obtained in return for a resumption of relations? A declaration of war will secure us no new rights, would merely be a death-blow to our prosperity and happiness, and another capitulation to this frightful international chaos which pits civilization against civilization in the name of civilization. In other words, our joining the war is one more loss to the cause of peace, one more concession to legalized murder for the sake of an issue which is clear only to the ignorant. War for humanity?--For prestige, perhaps, which will benefit our national self-esteem...
...regard to that depressing thing--the play's message--we cannot say a great deal. It undertakes to be a dramatic discussion of the disadvantages of married life and proceeds to discuss them, as we have said, for three hours on a stretch. A more correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike...