Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miniature Renaissance. . . . Active political clubs and stormy Union meetings have attested to the reawakened interest in politics. Lectures have been received with the same enthusiasm, and even musical recitals have had an unprecedented attendance. This state of affairs has aroused the apprehension of "several acute observers" lest the symbol of the bulldog be no longer quite apropos. Donald Stewart has remarked that the bulldog is characterized among other things by his deep chest, undershot jaw, and "the complete absence of any intelligence." Surely this figure completely fails to symbolize the new era at Yale...
...Bill, they professed to object only to its form; but as a matter of fact, underneath their arguments was a defense of the practice itself. Such an attitude, to the unprejudiced, can admit of no defense. Lynching is a flagrant crime against reason and justice. It stands as a symbol of America's barbarism in the eyes of civilized nations. President Harding, not long ago, stated his hopes for the negro race, with emphasis on their right to equal justice. As long as lynching persists, that right is denied them, and racial antipathy will be kept open. If the Dyer...
During the past three years, there has grown up in Cambridge a legend of the Bloody Crossbar, symbol of terror to those who face Harvard on the football field. It was conclusively proved in Saturday's game that for Yale men the Crimson "H" holds no fears. From beginning to end, the spectators watched a glorious struggle. Defeated in the final game of the season, the 1921 team will go down as one of Yale's great elevens and Malcolm Aldrich as one of Yale's greatest captains. Yale Daily News...
...captured shows that Central Europe has undergone a complete metamorphosis. The saddest of all blows to modern royalty must be the realization that the divine right of kings--once glorious in its supremacy--has vanished so completely even in its last strong-hold. Charles stands alone,--the pathetic symbol of a lost cause. Such is the penalty that men pay for living two centuries after their time...
...think there is some truth in the writer's conclusion that "Holyoke House must ever stand endeared in the hearts of those who have known it, as a symbol rather than a college dormitory". It is undoubtedly a better symbol than dormitory. STUART HUCKINS 1G. October...