Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...experts at the Peace Conference, the majority of people in America may be divided into two groups; those who believe China should retain possession of Shantung, and those who believe the sovereignty of that land is necessary to development and prosperity of Japan. And these two classes are each partial to their own view, tending to disregard the claims of the opposite side. It is on the sentiment of the Chinese people toward this question that the words of the Right Reverend Logan Herbert Roots '91, D.D., Bishop of Hankow, China, are of special moment...
...with a sense of duty alone, but rather with a feeling of satisfaction. For the most part these latter were too young for active service, and the undoubted physical benefits derived therefrom were denied them. The renascence of the R. O. T. C. will offer them a partial recompense for their loss...
...other features of Cambridge life which we would like to avoid--although we may at heart know some of them to be valuable. There has been a time when the cry against the possibility of compulsory exercise was loud and long, but we have come to believe that a partial adoption of this system is the one way to further the bodily development of the college...
...financial campaign to support the work of Phillips Brooks House has so far been attended by only partial success. Only a few of those who know the Brooks House well and have been among its loyal friends in the past are back in Cambridge this fall. These men have responded to the call, but the need is greater than they realize. So it is to the new men, Harvard Freshmen and men of the S. A. T. C. not vitally connected with the University that the canvassers are forced to look...
...among magazines, the most hectically varied careers known to man. They prosper, they fail, they revive; are alternately feeble, invisible and brilliant, according to the qualities of each rapidly succeeding generation. Of late, the Advocate has been passing through a period of eclipse,--if not total, at any rate partial. Before that, it was in the hands of poets and became a sort of serial anthology. With much work that was of course mediocre, it also printed a good deal of very exceptional verse by such poets as S. Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer, William Norris, and B. Preston Clark. This...