Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Irish people and for the future safety of England. At best it is a difficult solution if both sides are to be satisfied, and in view of the vital questions involved, it would probably be better for the House of Representatives to confine its attention to the problems which await solution in America...
...bottom. What we need in this world is less remedies and more precautions. Educate the peasant and the slave and less dupery shall exist. Certainly it is too late to elevate the laborer; educate rather the child. Open wide the door of opportunity; the ability and capability, of man await only its opening. We talk of democracy, much as if we had it. To realize it is our huge task and the elemental step in its solution must be the popularizing and democratizing of the educational opportunities of this country and of every country...
...action. Dean Briggs, the chairman of the Committee, has been appointed as an exchange professor, and is leaving for France to lecture at the Sorbonne University within the month. President Lowell will appoint a new Athletic Committee immediately and all definite action on major, and especially on minor sports await a decision from this committee. Although no announcement has been made it is assumed Dean Yeomans will take Dean Briggs' place...
...damaging. He instinctively tends to belittle his enemy and to consider him a foe of decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted. What a rude awakening they await! They swagger and boast before the seasoned soldiers of our Allies, who look on with amused tolerance and good nature, willing to be dominated and instructed at their own game, if only the newcomers can act as they talk...
...among the fifty-one fortunates who are leaving us for Yaphank. These men are starting down the path that leads to commissions and France, and many of them may not have a chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await our turn. They are going away from Harvard not to come back until the end of the war. Most of them will not re-enter college, for the University will seem a petty school after the trenches of France. We hate to have them leave us for we are temporarily...