Word: periculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current issue of the Harvard Advocate fails to fulfill the promise of its motto, "Dulce eat Periculum." A preview can, however, parade several articles which make lively reading. William Harlan Hale, Yale 1931 and one of the founders of the famed "Harkness Hoot," finds several differences between Harvard and Yale: that both insist on the separation of education and politics, but that Harvard more often actually separates them; that though Yale looks older, Harvard is older; that Harvard families are the older families. These differences are obvious, Mr. Hale thinks, because they are superficial. Deep-down, he assures us, Harvard...
...information and ideas which may intellectualize its efforts towards sanity. Its liberalism consists in the evaluation of first principles behind collegiate structure whether it be athletic, academic, or social. As for criticism of affairs outside of college to borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague: Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death of fools. If the liberalism is not foolish, sensitiveness on the part of the attacked will inevitably betray that the critical shaft has struck home. Attack for the sake of attack is destructive and errs...