Word: whim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...employees this same body could paralyze the hands of the police force, the fire department, and even the representative form of government would disappear under such a system. Labor would dominate; all other classes would cease to exist. The American Federation of Labor would absorb the government, and the whim of its leaders would be the only guarantee of safety for private individuals...
...great handicaps have come in the way of developing a winning seven at both universities this year; one, the necessity of relying on the whim of the weather for opportunities to practice; the other the absence of the backing of a strong athletic policy. But despite these difficulties, Captain Gross has produced a team which well deserves the honor of being the first to renew our formal athletic relations with New Haven. We have every confidence that its string of victories will remain unbroken...
...because it has been written down upon the colored card. It is seldom that an intelligent selection of courses can be made from reading the elective pamphlet alone. Particularly are snap judgments inadvisable,--a selection made on the assurance of a classmate that the course is "easy," a sudden whim, or even at times the advice of a Faculty adviser. Trial visits, careful consideration of both subject-matter and instructor are necessary. In spite of the annoying but necessary "red tape" involved, the Committee on Electives readily allows intelligent changes. And in a matter involving one's intellectual development...
...rowing, however, have been dissatisfied with the University's showing against other colleges, notably Cornell, where only two victories in eleven races have been secured, and have long felt that a change was necessary, hesitating only because of Harvard's success against Yale. The shift is not, therefore, the whim of a moment but the culmination of a growing dissatisfaction as indicated by its endorsement by the captains of the last nine crews...
...birds as wise or as foolish, as generous or as selfish as humans, were far away--fully the three thousand miles that separate Boston from Paris. Of course, there was Miss Adams instead. What more was there to ask? Fertunate Rostand, fortunate "Chantecler" to serve her pretty, passing whim...