Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Children of French soldiers are left orphaned after every battle. For most of them there is no means of obtaining the necessities of life save through gifts. If the German Emperor had never had dreams of Weltmacht, and been content to hold to his central domains, many brave Frenchmen would now be living in peace, and their children would look to their fathers for support. But the ambition of a foreign emperor brought havoc in lands not under his control, and as a result the orphans of France call to America...
...Board of Overseers of the College will hold a stated and special two days meeting in Cambridge on Monday and Tuesday of next week. The conference is to open at 10 o'clock on the morning of May 14 with the meeting of the Board in University Hall. Afterwards the Corporation and the Overseers will lunch with Professor and Mrs. A. G. McAdie at their residence in Milton. After luncheon a visit will be paid to the Blue Hill Observatory, of which Professor McAdie is the director, and a visit will also be made to the Bussey Institution...
...looked on as one of the proofs of Harvard's difference from other colleges. The existence of such a magazine indicated, vaguely enough to be sure, a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven was working which would ultimately transform American thought from the flabby courageless thing it is into...
This plan has been entirely successful, and the Harvard Club of Washington, D. C., has extended to the Associated Harvard Clubs an invitation to hold the meeting in that city on June 1 and 2, the dates originally selected...
...third-year class of the Law School will hold its election of class officers today. The polls will be open in Austin Hall from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. There are two offices that will be filled by this election: marshal and secretary. The marshal will be elected in the usual way, by a plurality of the votes cast. The preferential system will be used in the election of secretary. Each voter will be asked to make a first, second and third choice...