Word: encroachers
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...must elect more than two courses it will be necessary to encroach either up on your breakfast hour with a ten o'clock, or your luncheon hour through a twelve or destroy your siesta with a 1.30. Such are the horrors of our modern civilization. Alas that the days are past when only three courses were given. Cocoanut Chasing 6bs, Day Dreaming 73; and Sleeping...
...their charge of "not yielding to West Point," the introduction of military courses would hardly encroach on West Point's field of education. West Point turns out a fine class of trained officers, but Harvard's peculiar task would be to give the country a class of experts to supplement the present military staff. Since Harvard has the larger Faculty, a far more diversified list of courses, and a greater opportunity for scientific research, the military specialist would find his natural place here instead of at West Point. A feeling of rivalry would be impossible because of the difference...
...only for the three-quarters of the students who take a lively interest in the different sides of college life, but also for the professors and instructors, who make its columns the medium for their announcements. Its first function is to give the news. No consideration of advertising should encroach on the news. The chief effort of the editors should be to collect as much real news as possible and to present it in the most compact and orderly fashion. This seems a truism; but anyone who has read the CRIMSON for many years, will agree that, like other truisms...
...affirmative would violate by their plan. For in the field of protecting life and property the States have always been absolute. The suppression of continued violence as of sporadic violence has always been essentially a function of the States. The affirmative propose to allow the central government to encroach upon the States in this, their principal field of action. They propose to confuse State and federal authority by granting the President power to overrule the State authorities in enforcing State laws. They would begin the destruction of the pivotal balance in our federal system...
...called after the plans had been advertised for thirty-days. He introduced witnesses to show that the traffic on De Wolfe street was not large enough to call for widening the street. Objections were made to the proposed changes on the ground that a wider street would so encroach on the residences on De Wolfe street as to force the present tenants to move...