Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students performed their ablutions in the chill New England air at a pump in the College yard. The regulation College breakfast was "a cue (mug) of beer and two sizings of bread." Students were up at daybreak and were kept at their studies by candle-light. If the frequent verbal admonitions of their tutors failed to keep them at their books, a stout stick was resorted to. One unfortunate youth, on being chastised by the Reverend Nathaniel Eaton, first President of Harvard, cried aloud for Heaven to sustain him while the Reverend Mr. Eaton plied an industrious birch...
...thoughtout and more temperately written articles? It possible, let us convey the impression through the paper that the men of Harvard are thoughtful men, and that they realize that these vital problems of our national life are not to be solved by confusing our enemies in a cloud of verbal dust. The solution of these problems will require all the thinking power of the nation, and the University should be the centre of careful, non-hysterical work for their just and final solution. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the pen plus a little well-considered thought...
...First, America led the way in the creation of the League. As Dean Haskins said recently in Sanders Theatre, we should ratify promptly in order to "save our self-respect." Very concrete evidence is at hand to show that the Covenant is essentially American. Article X is practically a verbal reproduction of President Wilson's fourteenth point. This Article has been called one "heart" of the Covenant...