Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days ago a student at an American university unwittingly burned a paper napkin on which was a representation of the American flag. A night or so after that he was set upon in his room, taken out and beaten till he lost consciousness. He is supposed now to be recovering in a hospital from the effects of his chastisement...
...business candidates are required to solicit advertising and do a certain amount of clerical work. Such experience as may be gained from contact with business men and the operation of the paper will be valuable to a man after graduation, and in addition the successful candidates will have the opportunity of competing for the office of business manager in their Junior year...
...this simple way are learning to save themselves, in so far as they may, from terrible slaughter in battles, and learning that they may teach others to be saved, the game takes on a new meaning. It is not a boys' game played by boys with wooden rifles and paper hats who simulate the excitement of war. It is a man's game, and learning to play it may be worth in time our own poor lives, and the greater success of our cause...
...only Boston paper which would conceivably do such a thing has darkly insinuated that preference was given in the choice to Harvard men or other men with social prestige. It voices the woes of those hundreds of unsuccessful applicants who received their yellow slip, but got no further. The inference is that University, and therefore presumably mediocre or incompetent, men were chosen ahead of those sturdy and honest sons of Boston who were more eminently fitted to be officers...
...view," said Mr. Eder in closing, "but I also think that we should recognize this as a violation of treaty rights, and we should be willing to make reparation. It is necessary to preserve the good relations with South America. If not, they will think our treaties scraps of paper. The treaty with Colombia should be ratified by the Senate. It is not a party measure but concerns our whole South American policy...