Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departing from my hitherto unbroken rule of refraining from picking the winner of Harvard games by forecasting the Harvard-Brown game today. Harvard will win, or else let the name of Joe Forecast be dragged forever in the dust. Harvard will win, or else never again let the pen of Joe Forecast be dipped to ink. Harvard will win or else Joe Forecast will lose his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...
...mystical pronouncement of L. F. Abbott in the current outlook; he reinforces it with the instance of a Yale man, reared in France, who used French subjunctives as naturally as if he had been their inventor, yet failed in a course because he did not know the rule for their use. Using college board examinations as the prototype of hide-bound education, he seems to be deeply moved by the spectacle of so many young men marching doggedly, through the woods of college with nothing but a collection of crooked sticks in their arms at commencement...
...France has built more airplanes than Great Britain, the United States and Japan combined. She has now some 200,000 men fighting the Riffs and I see by the press despatches day after day that the Syrians are made to feel, even under the beneficent rule of a mandate, the terrific weight of her military forces. She has loaned large sums of money to other countries for the purpose of maintaining military establishments...
...many years it has been a Boston tradition that Freshmen should not be invited to debutante dances. Of late, however, hostesses have been departing from this rule, to the consequent alarm of the parents of Freshmen, the Dean's office, and the Lampoon. Lampy's protest is given in part below...
...through with the Klan issue. All the wiser for this set-back, the Klan will be even more skilful in the future; and the country will do well to keep the example of Facismo in mind, with all its attendant phenomena of press censorship, interference with local authority, and rule by a bigoted and militant minority...