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...second sketch, "Insomnia," is a local version of the "City of Dreadful Night" before those "damned exams!" We shudder our admiration...
...spirit is essentially that which imbued Napoleon. He possessed courage which never flinched, an energy that knew no bounds and which in itself inspired all who felt it, and he was a patriot whose loyalty to his land his critics never ventured to assail. His fall sends a shudder through the world. A beacon light has gone out. A towering oak, a landmark age-old has fallen. Yale bows its head in silent tribute to this great American. YALE NEWS...
...time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes it worth...
Football, like other sports, is taking a modest place in the scheme of young men's activities. Yet what football there is, will undoubtedly be well worth watching. In the middle ages the CRIMSON players used to shudder at the Eli menace. Today "the informals," those loyal survivors of the sport in the University, are facing a foe more formidable than the Bulldog in his halcyon days. Whereas "All American" elevens have in the past been mythical, they may in the near future be actual organizations. Each military cantonment plans to have its team...
Germany and England wish to blockade each other. That is none of our business. But when blockade methods are so outrageous that they make shudder all that is decent in us, when these methods kill off a couple of hundred of our citizens among a couple of thousands of neutrals, are we merely to sigh and say it's too bad? What are we to do? But the climax comes with the announcement that such methods are not only to be continued, but to be made worse...