Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...power in putting the staging of plays in Europe where it is today,--fifty years or more ahead of our own. The war has, temporarily, put an end to theatrical activities abroad and, like many of his colleagues, Dr. Ordynski has sought our shores. If it is an auspicious thing for the drama in America, which is badly enough is need of something auspicious, that these men have transplanted their workshop to this country, it is certainly more than fortunate that one of the leaders has become affiliated with the University at the outset...
...organized cheering and support of hockey teams is almost as much of a bromide as that entitled "more Freshman managers needed," and it is well known that undergraduate ardor is easily cooled by the chill atmosphere of the Arena. Be that as it may, there is such a thing as breaking traditions, even bad ones, and the brandishing of sticks over the vanquished gladiators of the skate in the Arena will not go forth half so merrily as it should if the two sections reserved for 1918 are not filled tonight. A class cherishes no memory so eagerly as that...
...Lunn advocated the idea of a "citizen soldiery," such as Switzerland now has,--for purposes of purely defensive war-fare. Disarmament would be a wonderful thing," he said, "but at present it seems impossible...
...first thing which students are asked to remember is that the circulation of printed letters does not always stop with the CRIMSON; that words in any way colored are almost sure to find quick publication in newspapers elsewhere. The nasty side of a question is presented to avid readers in Chicago, Barnsville, and Kokomo,--with never a word on the true merits of the case. The news is warped in transit until the middle-westerner believes Harvard a hot-bed of immorality and a nursery of vice. The first thing, then, is to couch your arguments in temperate terms...
...rowing and coaching, and as a better test of endurance and general ship. In the consideration of this question I think we should place some value in past tradition and in the fact that four miles has been the established distance. The three-mile race is an untried thing. My opinion is that it would develop into more or less of a sprint and would be more detrimental physically than the longer course. In all racing it is the pace and not the distance that kills. In addition, the last mile of the four-mile race is often the most...