Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fisher '12, line coach of the University eleven, has the following to say about Saturday's contest in the Boston Herald...
...blame such a play as "The Professor's Love Story" for having no seriousness of purpose were as silly a to blame Watteau for lacking the violent passion of a cartoonist like Boardman Robinson. To say that the play is trivial is merely to tell a lie. It is, moreover, to forget that there are such qualities as subtlety and niceness and that their effect may be quite a powerful as that produced by the shouting of a Danton. Barrie may be a greater influence than Brieux...
Good teaching should have its say; bad doctrines will kill themselves if allowed time and opportunity. They don't need to be garroted. --Pittsburgh Leader...
Suffice it to say that nowhere can one find a better picture of the war, viewed from all sides and from above, than in this book. It takes its place with Gallishaw's "Trenching at Gallipoli," Sheehan's "A Volunteer Poilu" and "Friends of France," as part of the library which every man, and above all, every Harvard man, should read
Harvard has been divided in this campaign, but not noncommittal. Harvard has always been inclined to condescend toward national politics, and to view all candidates, as we should say in France, from high to below. The Nomad remembers watching the Harvard classes as they filed past in the great torchlight parade in favor of Blaine in 1884. There was a tendency in the banners to lampoon all three of the candidates for the Presidency--Blaine, Cleveland and Butler; and this tendency was greatly emphasized when the class of '88 came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side...