Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than anything else it the function of Modernism to establish a new ethics upon a solid foundation, and to show that moral codes have more fundamental raisons d'etre than the mere force of historical forms can ever invest in them. Modernism concerns itself with life, the knowable. The earnest youth of today faces--not death--but life, and the serious interest being manifested at Harvard in the religious controversy reveals how eager is the desire to know how to live...
...should never have majority rule. The idea that three parties should be firing at each other in a triangular duel, and that Government could thus effectively be carried on, was founded on a hopeless fallacy. . . . We must escape from that system and reestablish in its place some broad, solid and substantial foundation by which the King's Government can be carried on, not for a session, but for a full Parliament...
...must, if he has read the CRIMSON in the past five years, have known of various improvements that this period has brought to the Lampoon. A very stable financial situation is but an indirect, yet nevertheless very certain indication of solid effort, both literary and business. A scholarship for study abroad is not offered for dillettantism by the "select club." It is the award of an earnest society which hopes to improve the following technique of its most deserving member...
Despite the presence of only three veterans on the team, Alexis de Tarnowsky '26, G. D. Dorman '25, and Captain W. T. Pattison '25, the victory over Amherst, avenging last year's 2-0 defeat, showed a solid defense and a promising attack. Four of the best of last year's 1927 team, J. A. MacKinnon at right full, and K. B. M. Crooks, Hiram Gans, and W. E. Trevvett in the forward line will start the game with Thomas at goal, Wickersham at center half, Sullivan at left full, and Fordyce in the line...
...brave is set in three feet of concrete to prevent his removal by any jovial funmakers. Except for his up raised right arm, he is carved from one solid piece of wood...