Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...least, with being a literary safe-deposit vault. Under the new board it appears bent on emerging from those purple shades where the pleasant but inconsequent art of canning the "best literary product of the University" has mildly flourished. It has tried to creep out before, only to be thrust back by a surprised and somewhat upset graduate board. The present venture seems to combine in better, certainly less vulnerable, degree the qualities of life and literature. The October number seeks to view and criticize the world within and without, yet with the decorum long considered proper to the University...
...find out what is being done. Public opinion is of little value as a guide in such things, because it is usually ill-informed and is rarely aroused until an evil has become great. In short, the moral questions involved in the management of the corporation do not thrust themselves upon the stockholder, and are rarely brought to his notice. Like the absentee landlord of an estate he thinks of the stock as an investment, and regards it primarily, if not exclusively, from the point of view of revenue; and the revenue is independent of the morality of the management...
During the last few years, urged on by somewhat unjust criticism from other colleges and by the uprearing of a new temper from within, it has become the fashion here at Harvard to work for "college spirit." To further it, so many flaming lamps of advice are thrust into student hands that some are quite unable to decide what torch shall light for them the academic road and others burn their fingers in trying to carry too many. With the current number of the Advocate as a text the reviewer ventures to give some advice on a condition hitherto passed...
...still a few men who have not joined. These men should realize that the ladies they have invited will receive no invitations, and also that they are seriously hampering the committee in its work. It seems only fair that they should join the Union at once and not thrust unnecessary trouble upon the committee during the mid-year period. 1913 UNION DANCE COMMITTEE...
...yards, there is that which should always apply to rule makers, namely, a further extension of a principle we know something about rather than a plunge into the dark. Perhaps some football Napoleon could, even with the present three downs, so vary the play of his team as to thrust it along the field for a touchdown. I believe that would be quite possible, but the Napoleon would have too many other things to do--like tackling, passing, punting and getting into interference. Hence the Napoleons are too few to make the matter of any practical interest or value...