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...ignorance and narrowness are cropping out every once in a while in some such as way this. They read sensational headlines of what two or three men do, or perhaps even more, out of nearly three thousand. With an eagerness characteristic of the man expelled for riotous behavior, they snatch at the chance to give Harvard a vicious "dig." "Who goes to Harvard to pursue a course of study" they say and you can almost see them smile with satisfaction at the readiness of their own wit and the depth of their observation. We wish that a few such writers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1893 | See Source »

...Outwards." It is a thought full paper urging our nation to be ready to back up the aggressive foreign policy which it is bound, sooner or later, to adopt and predicting that the islands of the Carribean Sea are the plums which all nations will soon be trying to snatch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Atlantic Monthly. | 11/28/1890 | See Source »

...game on Saturday are fair indeed, and we congratulate the nine on this last step towards the championship. If we succeed in winning the game on Saturday and two games from Yale, the pennant is ours. At present it looks as if nothing but very hard luck could snatch the final victory from us, but still it is not time to be overconfident. Our old caution may sound too trite to be published again, but it is better to err on the right side, and so we warn the nine that only the most careful individual and team playing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1888 | See Source »

...bright pearl I would snatch from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPERON. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...consent. By a curious contradiction in terms, however, the officers elected were called Class-Day officers, and assumed to represent the class. As long as Class Day is to be an occasion commemorative of class traditions and associations, no stretch of the imagination can make it other than a "snatch and have" proceeding for any section of a class - even "a limited body of men of fashion" to arrogate to itself the exclusive privilege of choosing certain class officers. If any such organization exists, as a "limited body of men of fashion," and they feel it their privilege to elect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN AMERICAN OLIGARCH. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

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