Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...waste our youth in a training which we pray never to have to use, when we might be spending it in learning and spreading lessons of peace. Then, when the time comes for us to talk to the world of plans for perpetual peace, if we fail to accomplish our high aims, at least we shall have given ourselves every opportunity for success. And then, if we do fail, while Europe is rearing new sons to fight her coming battles, there will be time enough for us to prepare to defend ourselves against them. J. GARFIELD...
...could be used for fighting the causes of war, how much better for this and every other country and how truly patriotic such work would be. If the undergraduate mind all over these United States would realize this, we should have a compelling force that would be sure to accomplish great things. You deserve the thanks of all for bringing this to the attention of Harvard undergraduates. C. P. ATKINSON
...absence of prompt redress on the part of nature, it is suggested that the University bestir itself. A squad of doughty men with shovels to alter the topography of the slush piles, and to dig little trenches so that certain demi-lakes may empty themselves into oblivion, could still accomplish wonders. Days ago, the need for such a squad was "crying"; it is still acute...
...over the lights and shadows of 1914, the undergraduate may regret deeds he has done or left undone. By the calendar he has written the record of those twelve months (and it is too late to "correct proof"); but in his scholastic endeavors the undergraduate still has time to accomplish something in the college term. If the Christmas vacation passed quickly, the few weeks remaining between now and January twenty-eighth will fly. Not by trying to prolong the Yuletide festivities, but by shedding the holiday spirit for a more diligent resume of the regular schedule of studies will...
Unless eighty per cent. of the Sophomore class joins the Union, 1917 cannot hold its smokers there. The benefits of the smokers have been too often told in this column to need recounting. The small smokers planned for groups of fifty men, cannot accomplish what the general Union smokers do. The class will be hurting itself and its chances of unity if it abandons the custom of holding these class smokers, and the custom certainly is destined to perish unless enough Sophomores do join the Union...