Word: timidation
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...requested that timid spectators do not crowd about the rink, lest they be injured by careless combatants. For the reassurance of the faint-hearts it may be stated that after 4.01 o'clock a sufficient number of ambulances will be on the field to care for all injured young boys, and two wards have been reserved in Stillman for their treatment. It is reported that the doors of the new frat house on Mt. Auburn street are to be painted black out of respect to the dead, and defunct editors will have their names engraved on tablets in the banquet...
...amusing, but stimulative of thought about certain phases of American life--stimulative because conceived in thought and developed by close thinking. Again, too, we face the unconventional, for in 'The Great Divide' Mr. Moody handles situations from which our stage even a decade ago would have shrunk in timid trembling, and in the 'Faith Healer' he enters the field of religious belief, a subject, till within something like a decade, thoroughly taboo for our drama...
There is nothing to frighten the timid newcomer in the buskined jester who holds the foaming glass on high. His welcome is rousing. It is echoed, though less boisterously, in the first editorial, which is devoted to the Freshman class. One sentence in this editorial is significant as showing the profound insight of the present board into the condition of Lampoon humor. "To an honored few of you," speaks the oracle, "will undoubtedly come the honor of rejuvenating the Great University Comie." This prophecy so modestly expressed, may be only a pious hope; let us humbly pray, however...
...nation and to himself. Each man should feel that, if he fails in this, he is not only failing in his duty, but is showing himself in a contemptible light. A man may neglect his political duties because he is too lazy, too selfish, too shortsighted, or too timid; but whatever the reason may be it is certainly an unworthy reason, and it shows either a weakness or worse than a weakness in the man's character. Above all, you college men, remember that if your education, the pleasant lives you lead, make you too fastidious, too sensitive to take...
...weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed instead--one of the driven cattle of the political arena. I want you to feel that it is not merely your right to take...