Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been a custom so old that the oldest living graduate remembers it as a mewling Freshman, for us to publish warnings, exhortations, pleadings, and commands for men to study for their examinations. The aforesaid warnings come always nine days before, to provide the time of the proverbial wonder. Having done that, we laid aside the pen, with the conscious rectitude of a good duty well done...
...there be who relied on editorial exhortations to begin study for his finals, and failing to hear those exhortations, failed his examinations, let him speak, for him we have offended. If there is one man who has forgotten because of us that the finals exist, let him speak, for him we have offended...
When the war first came upon us, many men with excess of zeal forwent all forms of pleasure, in a burst of ascetic fervor sacrificing all their thought to the war. After the lapse of two months, although not much has been begun, and nothing ended in a martial way, we are reverting somewhat to our former manners. It is evident that such a grand thing even as war may not exclude everything from our lives. We must seek the ordinary distractions from the business in hand, in order that we may resume the business in hand with increased effort...
That was two days before war. Lightning, chained or free, strikes quick. This is sixty days after war. The thunder of our prowess is still echoing, although no lightning has demolished Germany. Let us hope, for the sake of humor, that before the chronicle runs into the 200th day, it may be recorded that "American arms have met the German arms in honorable combat, and driven them victoriously back...
...similar epidemic might lead us to strange fears of a recurrence of an infantile paralysis scourge. But wiser thought, remembering that a man out of ranks is not inspected, and views in peace from the shack the torment of his fellow-soldiers, would cause us to believe that the reason of such paralysis, infantile or senile, may be seen in unsorubbed leggins and a dirty rifle...