Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...name of L. K. Garrison '19 in the table of contents will unquestionably be pleasing to the old guard of the Advocate's admirers, for there was a time when "Dulce est periculum" meant a great deal more than it does today, and a certain Garrison was largely responsible for its force. The present Garrison in "The Greater Union" handles a subject a little beyond his reach, but his diction is not that kind which gets into trouble in the famed course of English A. Myron Zobel '19 in "Richelieu, Vainquer de Dames" contributes the best approach to fiction...
...editorials of this issue are of the regular Advocate style. They are carefully written, and unimpeachable, but the subjects are not important enough for the labor which they show. The one concerning examination time reminds one of an old maid of sixty attempting to masquerade as a debutante...
...paper, Hughes is far in the lead, and it is the opinion of many prominent "Old Guard" Republicans that he will be nominated on the second ballot. Governor Samuel W. McCall being one of these. There is, however, a strong undercurrent of Roosevelt feeling, and although the Convention seems unusually staid and difficult to stampede, there is sure to be a great fight tomorrow, with Senator Lodge as a probable compromise candidate. The Weeks headquarters are still confident, but it is unlikely that he will last beyond the first ballot...
...freely thought that in case Colonel Roosevelt be defeated there will be another break such as occurred in 1912, and the "Old Guard" Republicans are spending much time in uneasy speculation as to whether or not Justice Hughes may prove acceptable to the Progressives...
Major-General Wood, speaking at the Memorial Day exercises endorsed the old slogan, "My country, right or wrong." He said in substance: "Some people think this is not ethical, but it is at least national and that is enough, for in a democracy the majority's will must rule." It seems, however, that Professor R. B. Perry, another earnest advocate of universal military service, in the last number of The New Republic presents a view which Harvard men will more readily endorse. "Loyalty to one's country," he says, "unless one understands its policy and helps to mould...