Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stuff deals rather conspicuously with war and its multiple aspects, and the nonsense touches on everything else under the sun, excluding the Scandinavian. And the very best thing about the Christmas number is that you'd never know it was one if the cover didn't say so. The cover, once again, is the most striking individual feature of the Lampoon, but that is not at all disparaging of what is under the cover. Even the Arrow collar advertisement on the back page is a little more artistic than usual
...taken to task by a writer who does not bother to draw on his gloves. He has waded right in and dealt his blow with a bare fist. One thing is certain--he has his opinions and these are to be regarded. But we hardly think our enthusiastic comment of yesterday morning on the British capture of Jerusalem calls for such a Philippic. Had we been presenting a detailed study of the taking of Jerusalem and its effect upon the world, we should have been guilty of a grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people...
...given their students generously and they shall continue to do this in the future. The main consideration must be how the colleges can best serve the nation. Some such scheme of organization as Professor Johnston proposes sounds like efficient service. The lowering of the draft age is still a thing of the future, but we may well plan our course of action...
...Because he knew the spirit of the thing he was fighting. He had seen Prussianism with its disguise of respectability removed. He had seen the lauded civilization of Germany stripped naked, and he thanked God in his soul that war had checked the spread of this thing by commerce and printed word, by subtle politics and subtler philosophy--had checked its peaceful permeation of the world's free nations before they had succumbed wholly to its spell...
...most noticeable thing about the present war is the fact that it is a struggle of peoples against peoples, not soldiers against soldiers and armies against armies," said Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00, in an impressive lecture on "The French Front and the Red Cross" in the New Lecture Hall last night. "It is essentially a fight between the produce and resources of the belligerent nations, and this fact Germany recognized early in the struggle and, accordingly, expended great efforts to under-mine the morale and spirit of her enemies...