Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your campus or in your Yard? Go back a few years to the gold stars in the service flag that flew so bravely over your and my Alma Mater. Can we count the number that that "little school" back in England has a right to fly? As you sit down to supper tonight in Memorial Hall, or around the cheerful table in the club or fraternity house, will no thoughts arise of your fellow-students, many of them struggling along on a few crusts of bread and a cup of weak tea all the supper they will get tonight...
...unpopular or not the Conservative Club and the Debating Union, of which it is one unit, if big enough in outlook and broad enough in foundation, have the opportunity to render a great service to the university and to the country. The time is past when college men can sit back above and apart from the rest of the world, to graduate and "go into" cotton, or steel, or architecture...
When Lane writes "Having just returned from luncheon and being in the enjoyment of a cigar of fine aroma I sit me down for a quiet talk. I am visualizing you as by my side and addressing you in person", we enjoy alike his gossip and his serious discussion, "the general look-in on my mind". His charm arises from the fact that the "look-in" although meant for one person, is not confined to thoughts that only two understand and enjoy. Profoundly serious Scot or light hearted, fanciful Irishman, or the American that was the balance between...
...responsibility rests on the man and depends on his character; the university is helpless against his will. He can partake of, the various college activities, including courses, and by coordinating them, develop himself into an intellectual unity with true depth of character. Or he can sit back and worship "the American god of mediocrity" without thinking or acting for himself or by himself. The most unfortunate part is that when he graduates after four years of the second sort, and he is almost sure to, he will be a "typical college...
Behind all this is the belief that America cannot remain aloof. That is what all Europe is trying, apparently in vain, to convey to us. They believe that European miseries must have some effect on American prosperity; that America cannot sit back and call "pay up", just because a few thousand miles of Atlantic isolates her. They demand "no sacrifice save that we keep among the nations of the world the great place we have taken...