Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next clipping, from the New York Sun, is dated at New Haven and bemoans Yale's loss of a very prominent school athlete who has recently decided to go to Harvard, in spite of having taken Yale examinations. The story goes on to say that sudden changes in athletes' intentions are being regarded with suspicion. We do not see why athletes, more than others, should not change their minds. But the funny part of this item is that the man in question has never intended to go anywhere but to Harvard and would give up college rather than go elsewhere...
...comic brother in his own droll way hit the nail on the head several times: we say that we are going home to rest and work. We are hypocrites. We know that we are going home to have a Christmas vacation, and that does not even mean rest. Work and worry and rest are foreign to this season. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
...lonely American boy whose "morals, like his religion, had been a family hand-me-down given him by his father." The detestable smugness of the Pastor's household is realistically described, and the only wonder is that Kendall did not find his way to the white--or should we say the red--lights sooner. The story might have ended after Kendall reads the delayed home letters. It is an admirable lesson to foolish fathers...
...mistake and that all the Boston papers were glad to correct it when told of the true state of the case. The Herald printed the corrected account in a much more prominent place than the erroneous one and with much more attractive headlines. It is our duty to say that the original mistake was purely accidental and undesigned. The Herald deserves rather thanks for correcting it when news value had left the item than blame for printing the mistaken story...
...mathematics or a malicious intent. Whatever its cause may be, this error will be circulated broadcast by the newspapers, and Harvard will once more be branded as "a rich man's college which bars poor students by compelling them to pay exorbitant prices for rooms." It is safe to say that Harvard's undeserved reputation for undergraduate wealth and indifference is largely due to just such canards...