Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured to lay hands upon the essential foundations of the social order. It is difficult to see how Boston can retain its position as the modern Athens if youths of such tender age are to regard the most characteristic institution of Boston culture as food for mirth. A Senate investigation into Harvard teaching is of vital importance unless the basis of modern Boston is to pass away unnoticed...
...usual, handicaps will be given to all entrants so that no man will be at a disadvantage on account of inexperience. Four cups which have not been competed for since 1916 will be given to the winners who may retain them for one year. The four cups are: Wells Cup, handicap mile, won by W. P. Whitehouse '17 in 1916; S. G. Wells Cup, quarter-mile, won by W. Wilcox, Jr., '17, in 49 3-5 secs, in 1916; Lathrop Cup; 220-yard dash, won by E. A. Teschner '17, in 21.4 secs., in 1916; Mansfield Cup for 100-yard...
...vital significance of this step toward the solution of the labor problem, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest of the twentieth century, must be plain even to the dullest. Today organized labor is in a very trying position; it must, on the one hand, retain the support of the laboring man in its moderate measures as against the violence of Bolshevism, and upon the other, it must see that those moderate measures are put through. English labor men have for many years received such educations with the result that they are diplomats as contrasted with the fighting type...
...third term which opens today will approach very closely to the usual life of pre-war years. Spring athletics will have their regular schedules of former days, and will retain few if any signs of war conditions. There are still some changes which must come before the old routine and life can be completely restored, but they are largely changes which only the coming of a new college year can effect...
...intricate under-cover ramifications to detect the opponent's weak points. Let that remain for the contest itself, where there will be ample opportunity for a battle of wits. We are facing an unequalled chance to slough off past habits in athletics that have been essentially bad, and to retain the desirable fundamental principles. --Yale News...