Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...closing of the Hostess House was seriously considered when the War Camp Community Service found itself unable to continue the activity. But the pressure, brought to bear, against this plan by the men who have been using the house was so great that the resolution to close it was decided to be unjustifiable, and it will continue in its present quarters until the fall, when the committee has been invited to carry on its hostess work in the Union. ANNE HATHAWAY GULICK, Chairman...
...regard to the changes in the curriculum at Yale, the influence of Prussianism is very evident. It has been said before in these columns but will bear repeating, that while Yale does not consider that a Freshman is sufficiently mature to select his courses without interference, it nevertheless obliges him to decide what his life work is going to be and to map out his career in college accordingly. Naturally it was not the intention of those who planned this "reformation" to establish such a contradiction but the result as the system now stands can hardly be otherwise. A young...
...that particular game because of a certain prestige which victory will assure them. Certainly the development of such a team is not normal. Moreover, the temptation has been too powerful to be overcome, and strong players have been enticed to small institutions by means which would not bear publication. It is to the credit of American college sport that on the whole small institutions have resisted this temptation...
...based essentially on this proposition. President Lowell must show conclusively that no such violations exist, that whatever of sovereignty the United States gives up in taking her share in the responsibilities of the League will be so insignificant in comparison with the ensuing benefits as not to bear discussion. Senator Lodge, however, has an equally difficult task in successfully maintaining that America ought not to forego the Monroe Doctrine and Washington's advice at a moment when the world's problems seem to many more far-reaching than Monroe or Washington ever dreamed they might become...
Yesterday morning a yellow-covered "Harvard Magazine," the third to bear the name, was placed on sale in Harvard Square. On its editorial page it declared its policy:--to present a new magazine not to be connected or confused with the two others of the same name, and to be a "fellow toiler in the fields of literary endeavor." No Board of Editors was published in the issue...