Word: mite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Students of the University will be given an opportunity tomorrow to give their mite to mitigate the suffering of those made desolate by the war. The Lampoon Relief Fund Committee, which is taking care of injured and otherwise malmed Lampooners, will supervise the collection. The tags will be sold at Herrick's and the Subway station...
...Maxim is the inventor of "maxi-mite" and of numerous other explosives and ordnance improvements. He is at present heavily interested in this work. Is there no connection between this fact and the free distribution of a work, the sole purpose of which is to advise a radical increase in military equipment? Is it significant that this book, prepared and distributed at great expense to the author, should contain in its first chapter a vigorous and lengthy assertion that "private manufacturers of war materials should be encouraged by the government"? If Mr. Maxim's motives are above question...
...existence of some central institution is imperative in order to gather up the various threads of undergraduate life and to bring all together in social, democratic understanding. This function is exactly what the Union is now doing, and for this reason every student in the University should contribute his mite to its success by joining its membership list and participating in its democratic life...
...permanent establishment of a new government in Harvard football. The feeling among the members of the team, the discipline, the sane and systematic rule, and, best of all, the power of accomplishment, which Coach Haughton's third team has evidenced, ought to convince every undergraduate who cares the least mite for Harvard's football success, that a long-wished for change has finally arrived. No better way could be found to endorse this new regime than the display of an enthusiasm such as no class new in College has ever seen...