Word: grave
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this respect is the educational work carried on among the Lithuanians, Letts and Poles by the Y. M. C. A. Of the 105,000 inhabitants of Cambridge, 10,000, or about ten percent., are foreign speaking, and many more are foreign with American sympathies. Politically they present a very grave problem to the city with which it is impossible to cope before these people can at least speak the language. Of course the large majority of these foreigners are of a working age, and therefore can not go to the regular schools. The city maintains night schools which are able...
Pledges to the Class Fund have been coming in with such unusual slowness as to cause grave doubts in regard to the success of the Fund; in fact, fewer pledges than "Lives" have been received. It will prove of enormous help in the bookkeeping, if pledges are sent in at once, whether or not accompanied by the first installment. Acknowledgments should have been received by all men who have sent in pledges and new cards will be sent upon application...
...born, it becomes important to ask why. If you say you came to college in order to get a degree, it seems like saying you were born in order to get a decent funeral--you leave out all the interests of life coming between the birth and the grave...