Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Deutscher Verein, "only ignorance or hatred can deny that the German people engaged in this war, have presented a spectacle of consummate devotion and self-surrender in waging it. With its very outbreak, all petty class prejudices, all sectional jealousies, all sectarian rivalry, and all industrial antagonisms seem to have been swept away. In a supreme moment, the whole nation actually felt...
Under the strain of a lengthy examination, the handwriting of many students reverts to childhood forms; even under normal conditions, others seem never to have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing...
...live at the best period of our lives in the most comfortable circumstances, and at a time when the rest of the world is suffering all the horrors of war. When we think of Belgium bleeding, Poland starving and Servia smitten by fever, does it seem a great sacrifice to spend a dollar to help a little in the Red Cross work of mercy...
...expected that Yale will win the intercollegiate this year and second place honors seem to be divided between the University and Princeton. Solid gold watch fobs in the form of clay targets are awarded to the members of the winning team, and in addition, Stanley F. Withe '14, secretary of the Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association, will present a sterling silver cup to the winner of the individual championship...
...other inconveniences were willingly incurred because of the belief that the work would lead to a Reserve Officers' Commission. In view of these topics, which it has raised, can the University justify its present dilatory methods in establishing a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps? It would seem that the rules of fairness make the answer to this question obvious. G. H. SHAW...