Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...boys and girls, who don the habiliments of full-fledged citizenship when they take their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth is to be theirs, all the serious thought that they can bring to bear upon the choice offered to them. Four years ago they were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest in politics was academic. Today it is practical. Four years ago the ballot was a symbol. Today it is a weapon for good...
...step by step, the preparations made on a greater scale than ever before. Our headquarters were some 20 miles from Amiens, on the national highway leading to Peronne, directly behind the sector of lines where the French troops have brought the heaviest pressure to bear...
Word has come that another Harvard man, Clyde Fairbanks Maxwell '14, has disappeared gloriously in the terrific fighting of the last few weeks. Those who knew Maxwell in College easily understand the courage and devotion which led him to bear his part in the War. His death adds one more imperishable monument to the traditions of his University...
...lack of contestants in the field events for the past several years has been the subject of so much comment from the University at large that it is unnecessary to go into details at present. The fact remains that a large number of men have totally failed to bear their share of the University's athletic responsibility, and as a result, the excellent work of our sprinters and long-distance men has often been offset by the shortage of entries in the field events. And to make the situation even worse, the only reason that can be assigned to this...
...entire proceeds will be given to the Allied Bazaar in New York, which is raising a million-dollar fund for war relief. Besides naming a planet for a college, a vote is being taken to determine the name of what city another of Professor Metcalfe's planets will bear, while shares are being sold for the privilege of naming a third asteroid according to the wishes of the winner...