Word: sound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Those who have invested their money in government business have been liberal. And it is an investment; giving is not the word. The CRIMSON feels sure that a large number of undergraduates will not see this day pass without loaning the United States at east $50. Not only the sound business of it all will appeal to these men, but the fact that there is patriotism involved in this thing will influence everyone. We are wont to feel in times of peace that we are above patriotism. The coming of war only proves how sacred it is, especially when...
Today the Stadium will once more echo to the sound of football signals as the Informals play the Bumpkin Island Sailors It is a long time since team has met team at this place. When Harvard played Princeton in that memorable struggle last year but few thought that Soldiers' Field would so soon become what its name implies. War seemed a long way off; the thirty thousand people were then far more intorested to find out whether Horween's kick would go true than what would be the result of the battle on the Somme. Things have changed. The turf...
...threats which have been uttered at occasions by public speakers or newspapers that now, when the nation is at war, is the time to advance the interests of any one class, relying on the weakening power of Government to quell internal disorder, have an ugly sound. Public speakers are somewhat inclined to wax grandiloquent in the rostrum or over the after-dinner coffee and cigars, dreaming that their words make the nation shake. The newspapers are the German papers, which still consider themselves aggrieved, and continue to cry out against "perfidious Albion," who is our ally...
...plans for Class Day this year sound sad as a dance record at ten of the morning. The week which ordinarily ends the Senior's career in what the newspaper always call an orgy of joy, has shrunk in length and magnificence till it bears the same relation to former custom that a Junior Dance does to a Junior Prom...
Under the exemption which will be made to the draft bill, members of those religious sects which forbid participation in war, as well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which...