Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their last official game the University horsemen will confront the 101st Field Artillery riders in the Common wealth Armory tonight...
...Sunday afternoon. About 15 of them repaired to a retired spot in a field near Porter's Station; they brought with them two bags, each bag containing a cat and they were followed by a bulldog. A circle was formed, a cat was then let out and made to confront a ferocious bulldog; they attacked each other with the merciless fury characteristic of both species when unable to escape. During the 'high toned' entertainment indulged in by the curled darlings of the nation' a lady appeared who expressed her contempt of such specimens of humanity. Both animals were torn...
...college year, Harvard songs, a man of Cambridge and a host of other things of interest to the new student. Copies that are not sent to Freshmen are given to any new men in the University regardless of their department. But the Handbook cannot answer all the problems that confront the stranger in Cambridge for the first time, and to this end, a Bureau of Information is operated by undergraduate and graduate volunteers in the Parlors of the House during the week preceding and a few days after the opening of college. An average of about four hundred...
...year entering class special reservations have been made for rooming accommodations in the Business School Dormitories across the Charles. The usual lack of available rooming facilities will not confront the mid-year class...
...example will be followed. But I have also brought it to your attention because I think it is one way of introducing the element of seriousness into American education which will cause. American students to give more attention to the great problems of political, social and religious life which confront us today. For any careful observer must admit that there is taking place before our very eyes a disintegration of standards which must give great concern unless we know the direction in which we are moving and the foundations which we are laying...