Word: neither
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...later Eckfeldt, who replaced the latter, was in a great measure responsible for the victory, for the Princeton linemen kept together very well and the burden of stopping them was put on the defence. Although both goal-guards, Wylde and Ford, made some difficult stops, the work of neither was especially brilliant...
...even admitting that the proposed system would mean compulsion of conscience--as I do not--it is submitted that such compulsion would be neither undemocratic nor un-Christian. All compulsion is not abhorrent to democracy and Christianity. Taxes are universally compulsory--and the payment of them may be against the conscience of some--but they are merely regarded as a necessary evil. Taxes are one thing which the individual owes the state. Military service is another, and the compulsion of a man to do his duty to the state is justified--even in a democracy...
...Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach Vivian Nickalls. English crews in English rigged shells have been almost uniformly successful in the Henley races...
...Neither the hope for peace nor the desire for war should blind us. A new crisis means an increased danger. The slightest blow on hammered rock will cause that rock to break, and how near America is to breaking only those at the head of it may know...
...borrowers" do not call themselves dishonest. Many of them are quite reputable young men, slightly lacking in brain, perhaps, but accredited with honesty for all that. All of them would be bitterly offended if named by an ugly and descriptive term. And yet their actions are neither more nor less than thievery. When a man takes a book from--the Library shelves under cover of his coat, or in his bag, he is robbing every other man who may wish to read that book...