Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other plan under consideration was that of intramural games, inter-battalion or inter-class. It had been thought that such a plan would give the best opportunity for exercise to the largest number of students, but the meeting last evening decided that either inter-battalion or inter-class games would be impracticable. There is not enough esprit de corps to warrant battalion athletics, and the classes of 1919 and 1920 are the only ones who could make up sevens. Accordingly, the meeting recommended that hockey for the students who are not experts should be played in the Leiter Cup series...
This planet can no more be moulded into a community of thought than it can be forged or frozen into a single climate. Geography's constitution may not be amended by Europe's majority vote...
Every American shrinks from the thought of being linked politically with Europe. He feels the selfishness and the pride of nationality which are his rightful heritage. He will squirm at the many dissertations sure to come on the subject of European and American political union. --New York...
...policemen, firemen and mail carriers they gave no offence because these men were recognized as essential democrats in spite of them; and we knew that they had a good effect among "foreigners." We saw so few army and navy men that their uniforms didn't figure much in our thoughts. When we thought about them at all it was with a certain derision of the "gold braid...
...reflect the spirit in which many students must have taken up their work this year--a spirit of realization that they belonged in College just now because this is the very place where they can make themselves of the most value in the long run. This is a thought calculated to sober the most heedless; and the accompanying reflection that it is for them in their security to do something at least approximating in value what many of their contemporaries are doing at the peril of their lives must provide an unaccustomed spur for the daily task. The pity would...