Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers,' the present batters at Yale and Dartmouth keep their proper proportions. But outsiders are more gullible; finding that the critics take themselves seriously, they are quick to swallow the scandal. And how seriously the critics do take themselves...
Quando fiam ceu chelidon - O swallow swallow...
...subject matter as to whether his audience is five or five hundred. Ours is a voluntary system, Moreover, the studies of an Oxford man do not range over so large a field. He will study history or philosophy or science or literature, but he will not try to swallow all of them. I believe this is not the case in America. We do not put so much value in special training as in a well developed working mind. There is a philosophy course at Oxford from which men who get a high grade can pass directly into good business positions...
...team planned". And judging from the numbers that have signed the blue books, there is a decided interest in the idea. But a swimming team under present conditions would stand as much chance in a contest as "Dan'I Webster"--Mark Twain's prize frog.--after being forced to swallow lead. With no adequate pool in the University the candidates will have to go to the Y. M. C. A. tank in Boston and even there, unless present arrangements are changed, the only available time for practice will be during the supper hour. That a representative team can be developed...
...sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism, and mud-slinging for the mere joy of feeling the muck will sooner or later lose its force and its influence on the minds of the public--which is in the end really composed of "people who think", not of people who swallow...