Word: fears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although the time for enrolling in the Red Cross has been extended to today, the memberships have been coming in with disheartening slowness. So few have joined that the secretary of the committee advised the CRIMSON not to print the number, for fear of disgracing the University! Suffice it to say that Harvard ranks the lowest of all the colleges which are conducting a campaign. The committee sends out an urgent appeal for more enrolments...
...eventually changed, the undergraduates now enrolled will be protected. Whatever credit was officially promised at the beginning of the year will be given the men who successfully meet the requirements of Military Science and Tactics 1, even if important changes are made in the course later. Therefore none need fear that by remaining in the course, although a reserve officers' unit has not been established, he runs a chance of losing credit for the work completed in the course this year...
...stated that he did not consider it likely that the disease would spread through the University and therefore did not think a general quarantine at all necessary. He compared the University with the various towns and villages in the surrounding country and pointed out that if there was no fear of contagion in these small communities, nearly every one of which contains at least one case of infantile paralysis, there should therefore be no danger in a University community of over 4,000 members, when only one case has appeared. The rumor that another case has developed is false. There...
Among a very few classes of men the idea that politics does not offer a field for gentlemanly activity is still prevalent. However, undergraduates need not fear that a live interest in elections and political questions will be considered ungentlemanly by their friends in polite society. If they fail to understand now, they will soon find out that men on the outside world consider it "commeil faut" to discuss the policies of political parties. Many financiers, railroad magnates and money kings actually have strong political opinions and work earnestly for their respective parties. So the undergraduate need not feel that...
...opening of the first act, one derives the impression that the humor is to be poor, and the action weak, this fear is quickly dispelled by the entrance of Miss Fisher as Annabelle Leigh, who has a husband somewhere, and Mr. Nicander as George Wimblton, who recognizes the day after New Year's as the only time when he is likely to be sober. Once they have made their appearance the dialogue is transformed into a new and ultimate thing fairly overflowing with life. Characterization and personality appear as if by magic, and the whole action is enlivened and lightened...