Word: founds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very old Harvard tradition? At any event, the story has often been heard that the time of the call to morning prayers was determined there, some generations ago, by loud ringing of the chapel bell at the precise moment when the undergraduate, to whom the duty was assigned, found it possible to read, by the advancing light of day, the print of a newspaper officially approved for this delicate test. That was daylight-saving with a vengeance. --Boston Transcript...
There will be no more University hockey in the Arena this year, according to a recent decision of the management. It has been found that the entire arrangement with the Arena was unsatisfactory. The time allowed for playing was too limited, the playing surface bad and the rink itself inaccessible. All informal games will be on the Charlesbank rink, where the team will practice daily in conjunction with the Freshmen...
There is no doubt that the "gluttons for work," as aforesaid, will be found. The advantages of getting a full "Tech" course in three years or less will appeal to many boys willing to test their mettle in such a scheme. It will not only help them, but will hasten the country's needed supply of Technology trained men. --Boston Post...
...more than likely that the answer is found in the political and social structure of Australia. That country is one which has founded not only its social and economic systems, but its politics, on free white labor. All Asiatic and all semi-servile workers have been excluded. There is no foreign or mobile labor. Every worker is a politician, and every politician has at least sprung from the workers. The maintenance of the Commonwealth on its present basis depends on the presence of an industrial body of workingmen in Australia itself. The Labor party, in short, cannot spare any more...
...greatest asset is its record of achievement and its tradition of high purpose and exalted aim. Let us continue to aim high. If we do so and are properly supported we can build up in this community one of the very greatest, if not the greatest centres to be found anywhere in the world of science, pure and applied, for the two must go together--a centre of scientific thought that will profoundly affect the future of this country and of the world...