Word: phase
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First, what is private honor? Its meanings are legion. But its aggressive phase is the feeling that deliberate injuries to one's pride or person or kin make requital dearer than life itself. This is so part of us that we instinctively scorn anyone who questions it. Yet is it a reliable guide, after all? History's variegated standards of honor prove no. Honor constrained the medieval knight to make quixotic fighting tours to glorify a lady whom he never saw. Honor dictated family feuds like that of the Montagues and Capulets. Honor involved private war after every injury. Today...
...visit to the University. Last December he spoke in Sanders Theatre and received such an enthusiastic reception that the Union management have arranged a second opportunity for members of the University to hear him speak. No definite subject has been given out but he will probably speak on some phase of England's share in the war and the responsibilities of this country in the present critical situation...
...author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Monday, February 12. In accordance with the purpose of his visit to this country as lecturing representative of England in the present war, Captain Beith will speak on some phase of the struggle from Great Britain's point of view, drawing from his wide experience in the Allied ranks as a member of the Tenth Argyl and Sutherland and Highlanders...
...necessity for at least withholding from universal services until after the reorganization of Europe has been urged. How much better to adopt it now, while there may yet be time to take our place as equals of the other powers in that phase of national life which they most respect; so that when the reorganization of Europe does occur, the American people may, if it chooses, take an influential part in the establishment of world peace. The sincerity of America would seem far less real if it increased its military power to first-class standing after the organization...
...photographic phase, the Illustrated carries pictures of the principals in the Dramatic Club's show, the Senior Class Marshals, the new Farnsworth Room at the Widener Memorial Library and Captain Wheeler of the University football team. And there is also present the "dope" on the hockey season. The complete number is quite creditable and can fit into Volume XVIII of the Illustrated with full rights. N. R. O'HARA...