Word: part
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seems honest in his eyes, and not dodge the question or be two-sided about it. He must look at all questions from the vie-point of the nation and not from that of the locality, for what is good for the whole country must be good for a part of it. State and sectional interests should combine. Our whole history is the story of people working as a whole and against separations and groupings, and the national idea has won. It was the provincial idea that started the Civil War, and the national force which was victorious...
There is an old saying, "It's always darkest before dawn." Once upon a time this may have been quoted by some optimistic undergraduate. But after so many phantoms of false morning in the days of Harvard athletics, after so many years of Juggernaut-like sacrifice on the part of the players; after an humble but ceaseless endeavor by all undergraduates to nourish in their midst a situation, maimed, tethered and hamstrung, all those interested in sport are by this last absurdity fairly roused into sitting up and taking notice. The only apparent opportunity to express one's sentiments...
...Rhodes emphasized the important part which Godkin played in the public life of his time. Born in Ireland, he arrived in America at the age of 23, and not long after began newspaper work. In time he became the editor of the "Nation," and for thirty-five years continued his journalistic career, taking at all times an active part in political questions. In 1883 he was made editor-in-chief of the "Evening Post," and in the "Nation," which had now become a weekly edition of the "Evening Post," he exercised an important literary influence...
...University association football team lost to Yale Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field by the close score of 1 to 0. The day was too windy for a good game, as the ball was out of play the greater part of the time...
...order of the Freshman crew was changed considerably this week, and a slight improvement has been made. Yesterday there was a mile race between the first and second crews, in which the second held the first to a length at the finish. The rowing was for the most part smooth, but when the stroke was put up at the finish the boat went to pieces badly...