Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...maximum, rather than a minimum of destruction. The blessing, in this instance, may be traced to a, source not at all mystical. The steady courage and quiet tenacity of the naval cadets who removed the many boxes of cartridges stored in the building's basement, and the prompt action of the firemen who carried carboys of acid from another room of Dane Hall, are good notes for the record of Harvard in peace as well...
...recent action along the Italian front, however, is a more substantial cause for cheerfulness. A few months ago a succession of reverses along the Tagliamento resulted in much pessimism in regard to Italy's fighting powers. French and English aid had to be rushed to the assistance of their faltering allies. Whether or not this has been the driving force in the recent captures makes little difference. The important point is that the Austrian Army is being repulsed on that front where it seemed to have secured the ascendency. The struggle for the Plave region far more than strikes...
...pointed out that the war has made it possible to bring about many needed reforms in various branches of college athletics, and that action should be taken at this time to do away with the Poughkeepsie race because of its great expense to colleges, and because it is usually held after Commencement time...
...high cost of rowing has always been traceable to the Poughkeepsie regatta, with its late date and its long and costly period of preliminary training. A plan which limits intercollegiate rowing to the academic year, which makes it possible for the student body to see its crews in action for its most important races, and which cuts expenses in half, is certainly worth serious consideration by the stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association...
...heard probably of Harvard's loss, the stage's--future stage, at least--loss, and my loss--in that bully good fellow and perfect friend, Ham Craig. His section, Number 2, was working right beside us; their 'postes' were adjacent to ours--and he died from wounds received in action--it all occurred between 10 in the evening and 2 the next-morning. And all the time I was driving a car and never thinking of him going. I saw his grave--all flower-covered. It was in the heart of a cemetery of French soldiers--lines of them...