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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...one of his Spoon River Poems, Edgar Lee Masters asks whether personal liberty means liberty of the mind or of the belly. If he had been on Boston Common yesterday his respect for the belly would have considerably increased. Fifty thousand souls yelled themselves hoarse against "the trick of a minority," a Boston Tea Party on a large scale was planned for the evening of June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction...
...final analysis, the blame for academic casualties rests almost entirely with the student. It is easy to argue successfully against this conclusion, but the argument convinces no one but the individual concerned. There is a vast deal of intellectual deadwood and rubbish desecrating the upper stories of many Cornellians...
...absence has been noted is in the second assistant football managership competition. Nearly seventy men reported in the fall of 1916 for the Freshman competition. That is typical of what that position meant to other classes. The position resulting from the second assistant managership is that of football manager, one of the biggest and most responsible that can be filled by an undergraduate. The Class of 1922 must realize their responsibility. What man in that class will...
...Athletic Association deserves credit for having done all in its power to make voluntary athletics universal in the University. It is not its fault that the present system operates only for the comparative few. But since everything possible short of compulsory athletics will not accomplish the result desired the one course open to secure that result is to follow the recommendation of the Board of Overseers...
...poem will be one of the features of a book in celebration of the homecoming of the New England troops, which is being published by the Governor's and Mayor's Committee. The volume will carry no advertising and will be sold at cost. Manuscripts for the poem competition must be in the hands of the Program Committee, 40 Water street, not later than Saturday, April 12th...