Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gates of our own cities, is deplorable. The world has reached a stage where all sections are coming into close contact. In such a situation a policy of disinterested aloofness can lead only to disaster. Here and there, it is true, a few individual efforts are being made to combat this smugness in the American mind. The latest example is a new magazine, "Foreign Affairs", under the editorship of Professor Archibald Carey Coolidge of the University. Included in the list of contributors are President Eliot, Andre Tardieu, and Elihu Root...
...even to the layman. Crime and its methods have advanced as rapidly as the rest of civilization. The old-time "jimmy" and the nitroglycerine "soup" are now aided by elaborately planned, wireless-informed rings operating with the most modern tools and making a getaway in high-powered cars. To combat this the old-fashioned equipment and ponderous methods of the police departments are hopelessly inadequate...
When interviewed for the CRIMSON yesterday, Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, who recently returned from Russia, where he has been engaged in relief work, gave a brief outline of the famine conditions there and the means that are being taken to combat them...
...Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 tonight. The Crimson is seriously handicapped in the lighter weights by the absence of Captain H. B. Walker, who is in the infirmary, but the heavier classes have shown a strength which will be hard for the lighter Engineers to combat. The Tech grapplers have had some intensive work under Coach "Cyclone" Burns who has a reputation for developing a fast team, so it will be on this agility that they will pin their hopes against the stronger Crimson combination...
...Charles W. Elliot, who inaugurated voluntary chapel and the now widely copied elective system, Harvard has stood for individualism among the students. It makes no attempt to establish an invariable type, either intellectual, religious, or social, to which all must conform or be rejected. Strong and hard to combat are the influences which shame individuality, in matters of thought, dress or manner. Freshman regulations tend to destroy it as well as the prevalent habit of scoffing at anything new or different. No real need of such regulations exists: in the past have not Harvard Freshman classes prospered without them...