Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Christian Association will hold its first meeting of the year in Shepard Room of the Phillips Brooks House at 9.30 o'clock tomorrow morning...
...followed by army chaplains, medical officers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, civil engineers, accountants, etc. The lowest in the scale are the teamsters, general miners, cobblers, tailors, and laborers. It must be remembered that this is a ranking of such occupations in the Army and probably does not hold in general, for the most intelligent men of a certain trade may have been exempted from the draft on industrial grounds...
...most important event in the Senior year, next to Class Day itself, is the election of class officers. It is then that those men are chosen whose duty it will be to represent the class and hold it together after graduation. It would seem logical that every Senior would have a substantial interest in selecting officers who are to hold their positions for life. Unfortunately the classes are large and scattered, and the war has broken into their continuity; but this only increases the duty of each member to avail himself of the facts and then...
...subject. It is even rarer for such a man to prove that he is not a mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders and yet had a sympathetic interest in the misunderstandings of young undergraduates. The country honors and thanks...
...seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award of the V. C. But all this is of little moment, except to hold the production together and prevent its deteriorating into vaudeville...