Word: host
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was the host at the thirteenth national council of the fraternity held in Cambridge September 9 and 10 and attended by 125 delegates from the various branches of the honorary scholarship society in American colleges...
...intercollegiate finals the University is again host today to more than six hundred athletes representing twenty-two American colleges. When we consider that a few months ago college athletic systems were totally disorganized, and that the men themselves were in military service, the present meet is a striking evidence of the virility of intercollegiate athletics...
...overflowing. human sympathy. It enabled him to vitalize everything to which he set his hand, to turn the most perfunctory and mechanical bit of drudgery into an interesting and important task. It was the source of his success as a teacher and administrator. It made him a host of friends, young and old, who flocked to him for help and advice on every conceivable subject...
...opportunity had been given. It means more. That degree has been won not alone by a man's own sacrifice, nor the sacrifice of our thousands of warriors. It has been bought with the blood of 278 of our own class-mates, and with the lives of that host of dead...
...literary work in many fields. Roosevelt was the living illustration of what used rather weakly to be called "the scholar in politics". He dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host, a crack companion in the mountains, a swift counsellor in public affairs, an administrator who went at his ends like an arrow to the quarry...