Word: must
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...armistice in the battle of the Ganns before another and even more momentous controversy comes to shake the tents of the mighty. Such issues as reparations, disarmament, and the World Court pall before the present earthquake in America's diplomatic center. Even the most weighty questions of social precedence must give way before the spectral hint of prohibition in the British embassy...
...Cambridge this same statute annoys many Harvard students. The Hemenway Gymnasium, the squash courts, both boathouses, and the Soldiers Field athletic facilities are all open Sunday afternoon. But since a corner of Jarvis Field lies within the charmed thousand-foot radius around a church the tennis enthusiast must cross the river to the crowded and inferior courts of Soldiers Field...
...will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice of a counter-attraction...
Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...
...show they could, if more provident, retire in comparative luxury without assistance. If a teacher is to inspire the admiration, respect, and cooperation of his students in this material age, besides fulfill the social obligations of a university community and preserve the external tranquility that precedes mental efficiency, he must hold to a higher standard of living than the day laborer, the artisan, or even the average merchant. Michigan Daily