Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Linked by no ties of blood or tradition, Yale plays St. John's for the mere sake of having an opponent scheduled and of preserving her vitality for a contest two weeks away. Where is the good old "devil-may-care" spirit of a university. Which does not stoop to petty things, which plays football for the fun of playing the game, and not for the hope that she may prove herself a superior institution by defeating her adversary in athletics? --Yale Daily News
...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 on the seamy side of journalism...
...goodness sake don't go to aping Outlook in putting absurd and outlandish caricatures on your outside cover. The cover on your Oct. 5 issue is revolting...
...entire spirit which pervades all the suggestions and criticisms of the general and divisional examinations is one of freedom. If the tutorial system is to advance for the sake of the average student and become an integral part of his career it must also progress for the honor man. It must allow him a wider scope. He must be tutored and tested before his Senior year for his factual knowledge. Then he must be given the time and the freedom from restrictions to develop his original and critical powers of thinking. A revision of most of the general examinations...
...that the House Plan has changed Harvard physically is to utter a platitude. It takes almost equally as little insight to see how, for the sake of the House Plan, names, room prices, customs, and minor individual rights have been altered or swept aside. Instead of going to a professor's home one now visits at the 'master's lodgings;" instead of walking up the classic steps of Widener one reaches another library via a gilded lobby with a coloured ceiling...