Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Permit me to correct a false impression that might be conveyed by your article yesterday on the possible necessity of playing the football game with Yale this fall at New Haven. You say, "According to the Boston city ordinance the construction of wooden stands is illegal." This would naturally make it appear that the Association is trying to persuade the city authorities to violate the law by issuing a permit for such stands. As a matter of fact, it is the contention of the Association that the law does not forbid a temporary wooden structure of the type we propose...
...Sorbonne-Harvard exchange has gone on as usual; two Harvard professors have made the rounds of the provincial universities, and incredible as it may seem, the visitors have been made to feel that their hosts were really glad to see them and anxious to hear what they had to say. And there are few Harvard men who would not feel a real thrill of pride could they realize how deeply the French care for the good opinion and sympathy of this University--how strongly they desire "that Harvard at least should know the truth of this war," as they often...
...They have been like the man who thinks he is so careful about his own domestic affairs that it is unnecessary to insure his buildings, until his neighbor's house catches fire. To the great mass of our people the advocates for a league to enforce peace can well say that the proposal they urge is one that should be carefully considered by every...
...strong, and war comes only when temptation is strong and passion or pressure is great. In fact, most men who have thought deeply on these subjects are becoming convinced that there must be some form of compulsion to make countries respect the rights of others; as the lawyers say, the obligation must have a sanction...
...years prevent the highest efficiency in athletics. Harvard had students of the highest order in all of the branches, but team work was defective. It was an orchestra of virtuosi, none quite willing to sacrifice personality to discipline. When it did yield to discipline it smeared--shall we say Yale...