Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sugar!" the laudable success achieved by the "descendants of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona'" in abolishing seventy-five percent of the profanity in their city. I fully agree with your statements that "such heroics should not pass unnoticed", and that this matter concerning profanity is something for "all sober-minded Harvard 'men" to think about. However, it was too bad that you should introduce such child's play in your last remarks; and, above all, that you had to bring in that much-strained joke about giving the name of "H. E. L. L." (Harvard Emasculated Language League...
Such heroics should not pass unnoticed. Since neither the Y. M. C. A. nor the W. C. T. U. have volunteered assistance, a movement may be set on foot to form a new College association. All sober-minded Harvard men will welcome this possibility. The organization could be named, not the "H. M. C. A.", but, more appropriately, the "H. E. L. L." These initials stand for the "Harvard Emasculated Language League". The very title of the movement would insure its success, for who could resist raising H. E. L. L. funds...
...Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese, out-Donne by Shibboleth, Buncombe, and a bad negro. Aeolus had a breath. Sober, steadfast, and demure is the non sans droit o Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in of Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in musty covered tomes. Hoi Polloi...
...Harvard's degree-granting function antedates the State of Massachusetts by one hundred and thirty-two years, and was practically coeval with the Massachusetts Bay colony itself, the Attorney General's opinion can hardly be classed with the epoch-making instruments of American history. As a matter of sober historical fact, the power of Harvard to grant degrees may be regarded as resting on foundations quite as firm as those of the Constitution of the United States. If Harvard could not grant degrees, then there is no such thing as a college degree in existence...
...matter of economic indifference to her; all she wants to know is the character of the beefsteak; but if she hires a cook it is to her if the utmost importance to know the character of the cook--whether she is honest or a thief, industrious or idle, sober or intemperate. The employer and the employed are engaged in a co-operative industry and if that industry is to be successfully conducted they must know how to work together in promoting what is more or less of a common interest...