Word: kept
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...half-century of unprecedented expansion and growth in wealth, we have reached a material prosperity unequalled in history. We may be thankful at such a time as this that American development has kept pace with the increase in our national needs. The Civil War strained northern finances almost to a breaking-point. It is the source of our strength that the far greater demands of the present can be met by the America of today. Billions are tremendous drains on any nation and involve the necessity of every economy and saving. But billions we have in America, every cent...
...first University and Freshman crews in their final practice on the Charles yesterday rowed upstream against one of the strongest winds of the season. A fast stroke was kept for the greater part of the way, but no attempt was made to force the pace...
...building of the Freshman dormitories the daily chapel attendance was generally over 120. Since the class of 1918 moved into the new halls, however, the yearly averages have gradually decreased. The only possible interpretation of this fact is that the distance from the dormitories to Appleton Chapel has kept the succeeding Freshman classes from forming the chapel-going habit. An entire generation of college classes has now lived in the dormitories and this habit has consequently been lost. If not formed during a man's first year in college it is difficult to form...
...these political reformers turn their attention more to the abolition of corrupt practices, of the factors which all thinking men would like to see removed from elections. The men who have the confidence of the people will be kept in office. It approaches fanaticism for oracular persons to tell the inhabitants of a nation which has thrived under a party system to disguise their feelings temporarily and admit that their whole form of government is unequal to emergencies...
Showing marked improvement as a result of the three days of practice last week, the University baseball team defeated the Freshmen yesterday by a score of 6 to 2. A. L. Peirson '20, who pitched the entire nine innings for the University nine, kept the 1921 hits well scattered and was able to hold his opponents to two runs...