Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small world in themselves, and among them may be both high and low standards of morality. Although the dangerous influences at Harvard are many, less crime is committed here per capita, than in other communities of similar size. This indicates that a comparatively small number of men in Harvard join the criminal class. On the whole, we may say that the moral tone of Harvard is worldly...
...League of Nations survives the next few years, the United States will be compelled to join," said W. Y. Elliott, professor of government, in an interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter. "It is rather clear that our position on the Stimson doctrine of non-recognition of Manchukuo, the retention of our consuls here, and the "Open Door" policy is apt to get us into difficulties, which would have been less troublesome, if we had been a member of the League...
...that one of the great tragedies of the recent history of our country was Wilson's failure to accept the League with reservations, when it was reported by Lodge, who was then head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. If Wilson had accepted these terms, the country would have joined the League with unanimity. At the period when the resolution to join the League was defeated, the main argument of its critics was that it would in time become a sort of super-state, and would take away the powers of the American Congress. Now, by one of the choice...
Members of the Houses have invited students from a number of foreign countries to dine with them at one of the large tables that will be formed in each House. After the meal, the foreign students have been invited to join the American students in their studies for a short get-together. Following this, it is planned that the foreign and American students will together go to the meeting of the International Council and complete the evening with the discussion on economic planning...
...been given a dinner by and made the thirty-sixth honorary member of the New York Authors Club, had delivered himself at length to reporters. The Irish Academy of Letters, which he and George Bernard Shaw founded last summer, has had setbacks, he admitted. James Joyce refused to join because "living in France, he finds it difficult to realize how important the academy seems to men of Irish letters." Lord Dunsany refused "because he could not endure being only an associate member." Another Yeatsism: "I am not one who believes in waiting for inspiration. I start writing poetry...