Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good to believe that Class Day is with us again, the same old rollicking reunion of many pre-war season. Downed for a time by the exigencies of war-time, "it comes up smiling" quite as expansively as of yore, and many are the prophets among the returning "grads" who declare that the jollity of the occasion will smash all previous records to atoms...
...welcome fact that at least as large a supply of first-rate new material is available, as in any one recent year. Of course there will be difficulties, for as in other sports the continuity has been broken, and it will take time and infinite practice to reform old habits, and to lick musty material into shape. Former Coach Haughton, however, has expressed every confidence in Mr. Fisher's abilities as next year's coach, and the seven "H" men who have worked under him before are ready to swear by him. Moreover, Coach Fisher himself has declared his fixed...
...Hall was not in flames, as some of the scurrying undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
...have only just managed to outgrow was a survival from barbaric times, when early man first discovered that he was physically stronger than his mate. The passing by the Sixty-Sixth Congress of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment marks the final step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial and pre-Adamite assumption that might makes right. We therefore hail the approaching advent of equal suffrage for women, confident that it is an indispensably necessary step in the growth of American freedom...
...Holbrook, in "Taps for the Old Army," proposes to ensure adequate officers for a new army, and at the same time to avoid militarism, by making West Point exclusively a school for reserve officers who desire, to continue their military career after having won commission in the various R. O. T C.'s. Mr. Holbrook is probably too sanguine; no education has yet been discovered which will render weak human nature proof against the possession of power. It is, moreover, impossible to "leave out of consideration the question of the enlisted men." But the discussion of this and kindred topics...