Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale and Princeton regular attendance at morning chapel is compulsory, and every year the senior class at Yale votes to have the custom continued. This shows that men who attend prayers regularly deem it worth the effort. While we do not approve of and would not for a moment advocate compulsory attendance at Harvard, we do wish to call the attention of the University to the fact that a short service is held in Appleton Chapel every morning at 8.45. There is some justification for this, for, as a rule, less than 100 men are scattered about the vacant pews...
...proposed to bring the American drama into alliance with American literature? There is no great body of such literature, because there are not at the present moment in our national life those necessary underlying conditions, that prepare the soil. Consequently, for the same reasons we have no national drama. These underlying conditions, however, may come into being within a comparatively short time...
...vivacity was amazing. He came to each day's tasks as fresh as if he had never been through them before. Often as he had to say the same things, he never said them twice alike. His comments were so sharp and searching that they sometimes irritated for the moment. But the irritation was salutary: the sting soon vanished, the lesson remained. For every student who was good for anything felt, upon reflection, that the criticism was wise and just, that its form was inevitable, and--above all things-- that the spirit that prompted it was sincere and kind...
...Chadwick at goal in this period and the next was excellent, and it is due largely to him that the score was not greater. Several times, when one or two men came against him when he was alone and goals seemed inevitable, he left his cage at the right moment and blocked the shots...
...return for a moment to the Hague court, one of the most important instances of the triumph of Mr. Taft's administration over those obstacles is that supplied by the work of The Hague tribunal having brought before it the fisheries question between the United States and Great Britain. Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of War and of State, and now United States Senator from New York, has rendered many and great services to his country; and among these great services is that which he rendered last summer when in charge of the American case at The Hague. Nor was this...