Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many men cannot agree with the principle of the League of Nations. The reasons are obvious. In the first place it is an experiment, previously broached, perhaps, but actually untried. It would further seem to surrender a part of the cherished sovereignty of nations. Many powerful arguments are launched against it. Yet the men who are most violent in its criticism are helpless when they are asked to provide a substitute...
Captain William John Bingham '16, of Methuen, has been awarded the French War Cross for heroism at the battlefront in the closing days of the war and has received the personal thanks of the general of his division for the part he took in the October fighting. Captain Bingham was very prominent in College affairs, being president of the Phillips Brooks House and the Exeter Club, First Marshal of his class, leader of the Glee Club, captain of the 1916 track team, and a member of the Nominating and Athletic Committees...
...athletic representatives of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard have met to decide the policy of the three institutions and once more they have given out the report that "no definite decision was reached on any point." The University has become quite accustomed to this lack of action on the part of this estimable committee but at the present moment when the need of action on the athletic question is vital, it is beginning to wonder where the value and usefulness of this body lies...
...Grand opening day festivity in honor of returned soldiers. Afternoon tea dance, open to ladies, supper at cafe. Selections by Pierian Sodality and Glee Club. All men to be in uniform. Address on "Harvard's Part in the War," by President Lowell. Membership campaign to begin on the spot...
...believe that the time will ever come when civilized nations will arbitrate what part of their population shall die," said Professor Edward Warren at the Law School reception last night. Professor Warren said that although he had the highest hope in the League of Nations yet the laws of evolution and the Malthusian theory present an almost impossible problem. He thought that to substitute "the force of law" for the "law of force" would "tax human ingenuity to the utmost." Yet he believed that in time the race might overcome more of its primeval instincts as it had conquered some...