Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American Committee for Syrian Relief. The proposal that the triangular concert be held originated with this committee. All expenses connected with traveling to New York and presenting the entertainment were to have been paid by this committee. The musical clubs at Yale and Princeton had already agreed to take part in the concert...
...presented before it by those who deserve aid and who cannot pay the expense of professional legal advice. Since January, 1917, 104 cases were brought before the Bureau, and the aid tendered resulted in cash recovery for clients of $410.50. In 62 of these cases the Bureau took the part of plaintiff, in 29 the part of defendant, and was involved in 13 other cases on questions of real property, interpretation of statues, torts and administration, and drawing of wills. Of the 104 clients, 44 were men, 59 women and one a corporation. These figures compare with 147 cases brought...
...here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share in the war. Most of them know that their own time for service will not long be deferred. For all of them there is the determining stimulus of their country's part in the war and of its future place among nations. How could they have escaped a new stirring to thoughtfulness under such urging, and how could their quickened thought and emotion have failed to transmit itself into an increased and widened expressiveness...
...proposed by the President will of course be passed eventually by a large majority; it is favored by the greater part of Congress as well as by the country. In such days as these, however, immediate action is necessary, and the work which the President is trying to accomplish should not be held up by a few small boys in Congress who, for almost a year, have been making faces at the administration's proposals before they have been put through. Such antics are bad for both Congress and the nation; in the case of the new railroad legislation...
...small a number of students could pledge over fifty thousand dollars to this work was proof of the splendid spirit of those few men who had to stay at home. But the pledging is very much less than half the tale. The question of collection is quite imminent. That part of the story seems to be progressing with difficulty. It is not to be doubted that those who have pledged will eventually make good their promise. Yet at present the undergraduate body might well be accused of having "a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination." The collection of these pledges...