Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular weekly meeting of the Society of Harvard Dames will be held in Phillips Brooks House at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Miss Caroline Hazard, a former president of Wellesley College, will speak on "The Colorado Desert," and will illustrate her talk with lantern slides. The College Tea Association will be the guests of honor at this meeting. All members of the society are invited to attend the lecture, and all wives, mothers or sisters of Harvard students residing temporarily in or near Cambridge are invited to join the society...
Apparently the good faith of the brotherhood officials in opposing this strike is unimpeachable, but what the nation wants is results. Workers in public utilities should not be allowed to desert their posts without either notice or complete exhaustion of peaceful means of settlement. If the brotherhoods are to retain the confidence of the public they must show their responsibility and their power to live up to their contracts by breaking the outlaw strike and punishing its leaders...
...must one neglect the great oases in the desert. Lecturers like those of Haskins and Kittredge at Harvard, of Farrand at Yale, of Morse Stephens at California, of Gildersleeve at Johns Hopkins, have marked a great epoch in American education. They have been something more than careful digests of accessible information. There has gone into them the living blood of rich personality, and the student is a different personality for having heard them. And there are special subjects, like psychology and logic, which are taught in America with a like and equipment unequalled in England...
Compromis is an excellent and necessary thing in the ordinary work of legislation. In an issue like the present each side is fain to consider a compromise as a compromise with the devil. The only thing the would make Senator Lodge desert the American flag is the voce of the people. Only the voce of the people can turn Senator Hitchcock from the cause of humanity. But the voice of the people says to each of these men different things...
...installation of the new squash courts in the Randolph Gym is to be directly credited to the Physical Training Department, Basketball has been revived, and a promising Freshman team is the result. Also an inter-class series has been arranged. The Hemen-Gym., which has been a desert for some years, is once more a used building. Besides this, expert boxing instruction is available gratis, not only to Freshmen, but to upperclassmen. We call this instruction. So much has the Physical Training Department accomplished...