Word: making
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opinion to arise within some of our allied countries that the United States should make up their sacrifice because her sacrifice was not fully accepted seems unworthy of their recent noble action. A debt is a debt and no amount of difference between the debtor and his creditor can wipe away the obligation until the debt is paid. Now for certain Europeans to infer that the Allies' years of fighting before the United States entered the war should be ample pay for the loans which we made them, not only is an alteration of the obligation of contract but shows...
...with your control by others. It is wrong and has no defense. Temperance is self-imposed and self-enforced; Prohibition is imposed by others against your will, and enforced with a policeman's club. You can no more promote pure temperance by force than you can make love with a brickbat. Prohibition is insulting to your manhood, because it denies to you the right of self-determination...
...very satisfactory. The time was 22 minutes and 17 seconds, and at the end of the two mile point the first crew was a length behind the second oarsmen. This is not serious, however, for the second only counted on rowing two miles, while the University eight had to make allowance for a course just twice as long...
...been moved from number 5 to number 7, his place being filled by Mitchell, a substitute. Leslie, another substitute, is now rowing at bow. Coach Abbot was very much disappointed at the loss of the two men, as the 1922 eight had just become accustomed to its former make...
...June in a preliminary study of the situation as regards University news and publications. In September he plans to begin work actively. He will attempt to help the newspapers and magazines to secure accurate news of the University with a minimum of inconvenience and delay, and he will also make other arrangements for keeping Harvard graduates and the public in general in closer touch with the University...