Word: owings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...possibly have within the next ten years, a navy of sufficient strength alone to stand guard over our enormous coast-line? For I neglect any mention of fortifications which we have or might build, as being perfectly useless in repelling an invasion. We must realize that we owe our present and somewhat false sense of security to England's navy, but England is at war with the most up-to-date, wide-awake, and militarily progressive nation on the globe, and it would not be giving the nation which has already astonished us with such marvelous inventions in artillery...
...writers are fluent and entertaining; the editorials, deploring Harvard architecture and commending smokers, glass flowers and the Scholarship Service Bureau, are admirably expressed and sound beyond cavil. But barring that final sonnet, none of it, to drop into the vernacular, "proves anything." To Mr. E. C. MacVeagh '18 we owe our thanks for demonstrating that it is not impossible for an undergraduate to write good verse and still to remain aware of the big things that are happening in the world he lives...
...this desire, "that Harvard at least should know the truth of this war," I owe one of the most interesting days of my life--the 16th of last March--when I motored some fifty miles along the French front from Nancy through Lunecille to Gerbeviller and back, in company with the Mayor, and Recteur of the University of Nancy, and Professor Paul Petit, of the Faculte des Sciences there. On the previous day, during my lecture at the university, I had heard the cannon roar at Pont-a-Mousson, and though I was assured that there was came absolu along...
...class of 1918 should be especially desirous to hear President Lowell, to whom 1918 and all the Freshman classes of the future, owe so much. President Lowell has devoted particular attention to the welfare of the first year man. He made possible the new Freshman dormitories, whose value to their comfort, and even more to their unity, the Freshmen must already have come to realize...
...remedied today. A victory over Princeton on Saturday will give us the intercollegiate championship again, and it is the duty of those men who have been playing on the second team to report every day this week, even though they have no prospects of getting into the game. They owe this much to the college and to the members of the team...