Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every class in the community will be affected by this drastic measure. Not even the Back Bay bud will escape the pinch, for one clause reads that all dances, public and private, shall stop at 10 o'clock. Gone also will be the midnight oil consumption of the mid-year period; even the movie palaces will have to leave the hero hanging over a canyon edge on a thin rope, if he is so inconsiderate as to be in that position, at the tenth stroke of the clock...
...idea of such a contingency, for we feel that colleges are of vital importance to a country, especially in time of war. Here are developed many of those who will become national leaders, as well as military officers. But as Professor Johnston points out, the present time demands drastic action. If the Government needs men nineteen years of age, the colleges must make an additional sacrifice...
This is, of course, a drastic scheme; but there is nothing the country needs more at the present time than drastic schemes. We are already suffering seriously from half measures. The plan presents difficulties, of course. One is that it requires a good teaching staff; and it would be far from easy to secure the right men. On the other hand, any plan of this sort would have to be put in hand several months in advance, and I cannot believe that it would be impossible, with fair notice, to secure the men we wanted...
...mutilation of magazines in the Union has gone so far that drastic measures of some sort are imperative. There are a few who have become professionals in removing plates from the International Studio, Sketch, L'Illustration, and other illustrated publications. Sometimes a copy is cut to pieces within an hour after its arrival. Those periodicals which are particularly objects of attraction to the vandals might be kept at the desk and loaned to readers only on their signed applications. Even a system of espionage is justified; and the worst offenders, if caught, should be mercilessly discharged from the University. They...
...addresses to be delivered much attention will undoubtedly livered much attention will undoubtedly be given to the question of summer baseball and amateur eligibility in general. There is no doubt that the cases of eligibility which arose last fall have brought college athletics to a point where some drastic action must be taken, if they are to be kept on the level of strict amateurism...