Word: solider
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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More places were open for new candidates in the line, but Captain Black at guard formed a solid foundation around which to build up a strong rush-line, the best for several years...
...trouble with most of our ideals is, that they are absorbed, not thought out. Our politics, our religion, are imbibed rather than constructed. How many men who voted in the straw ballot, how many who will march in the Hughes parade tonight, base their acts on solid reasoning and conviction? The only reason why free-thinkers are persecuted is that the majority of people do not take time to think. They blindly follow the conservatism of the last decade, finding it easier to submit than to investigate...
...gave Wilson 64 per cent. and Hughes 36 per cent. of their votes, while the undergraduates gave Hughes the lead with 64 per cent to Wilson's 36 per cent. Hughes was supported by the officers of administration, but the faculty members of the departments of social sciences were solid for Wilson. The interest in the straw ballot was not as great as expected, for only about half of the faculty and undergraduates voted...
...Freshman crews repeated their morning dose of practice, while Crew A went on an eight-mile paddle to the New London railroad bridge and back. The cruise down-stream was made in two stretches with the stroke usually low but often being raised to between 32 and 34. One solid row, however, constituted the return and no attempt was made at time, but this was merely considered a conditioning...
...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...