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Should the score ever be forgotten by newer generations, one memory will always persist: the chivalrous manner in which the Princeton men expressed their joy. Their regard for the shattered hopes of thousands of Crimson supporters will do more than any other single event of the past few years to cement the growing friendliness between the two universities...
Since this is so, any attempt to interest its reasonably mature students in the games of the schoolboy,--class activities and group demonstrations as such--must of necessity be received with apathy--or the famous "Indifference." Just so long as the less acute persist in their endeavors, just so long will "Harvard Indifference" be spoken of by outsiders with curiosity and wonder. It is not remarkable. It is not even anything genuinely interesting, like a defense complex. It is merely the reaction of a group of men to something they consider tiresome and a little childish...
There is no abatement in the practice of the Serbs in imprisoning, torturing and murdering Montenegrin men, in mistreating and even violating women, in persecuting old men merely because they have refused to swear allegiance to the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and persist in maintaining that they are Montenegrins and that the sovereign rights of their country shall not be violated...
Canned salmon: numbers of seizures, because a few of the smaller canners persist in putting up rotten salmon...
...then added: "I declare that as long as the Powers, including the American Government, persist in recognition of the Wu Pei Fu clique as the Chinese Government, there will and must be disorder and strife in China...