Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye"; and, except advertisements and new subjects for Advocate Prize Essays, it serves up nothing without an infusion of football--as if it would restore temperance by surfeiting, like a Keeley cure. It might well spare us "Statistics of Harvard Players." When a man plays football through one Freshman season and three Varsity seasons, we read his condensed biography seven times in the CRIMSON and become so accustomed to it that we do not need it in the Advocate. If the Advocate's example is followed by the Monthly, the Illustrated Magazine, the Lampoon...
Those who believe it appropriate seem in most cases to be of the "younger generation"--those who only know of the struggle from history. It is most natural and right that we should desire to wipe out the bitter fact that there ever was a division of our country, and also to express in some fitting way our esteem for those who fell in the Confederate service. It seems to me that Memorial Hall is a very inappropriate place to express this sincere sentiment...