Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association, and written for the CRIMSON by Captain Percy Red fern Creed, well-known English journalist and International sportsman. This article deals with the more practical questions of organization in the movement for international sport competitions, which he believes is the most promising cure for unfriendly foreign relations. The movement is supported by several prominent Harvard graduates...
Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars of Sovietland, spent several weeks in Rome, seeking a cure for bronchitis, announced the Russian Embassy of that city. He took the precaution of preserving strictest incognito for fear of assassination...
Both the New York Stock Exchange and District Attorney Joab H. Banton have declared their intention of wiping out bucketshops. Yet each has proposed a different cure, and this has been the occasion of rather heated dispute between them. Mr. Banton declares that the only solution to the problem is to license stockbrokers. The Stock Exchange, on its part, maintains that the only way to stop bucketing is to put bucketshop keepers in jail and keep them there, and that what is needed is enforcement of old laws rather than enactment of new ones...
Like all improvements, however, the present one in itself is no cure-all. Although the members of the new Council are to be elected by a general vote, general votes are frequently unintelligent, and, particularly at Harvard, quite often almost non-existent. The unending succession of exhortations and appeals which invariably accompanies a class election, until enough votes are cast to make a choice valid, is sufficient indication of the passionate enthusiasm with which the undergraduate voter takes to balloting of any yariety. If the members of the new Council are to be anything but figureheads, the electorate must, exercise...
...went on to explain a plan whereby through sport competitions between New and Old England, the healthy influence could be extended to the working man. "It may not be a perfect cure," he said, "but if you can show me a better 'ole, I'll go with you to live...