Word: plain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reticence with regard to the affairs of the University, that discriminating reserve which is sometimes associated with the word "gentleman"; and to see to it that to any conduct or expression which tends to impair or to bring in question the dignity of Harvard, there shall naturally attach the plain stamp of infamy...
...jerk and a kick which flops you on your back and then complete the loop and come out traveling in the opposite direction, the quickest way to turn around; and lastly, the side slip, where you turn the machine on its side till the wings are vertical and just plain fall without any supporting surface. It is the quickest way to lose altitude and you certainly do come down. You fall faster and faster till the wind roars through the wires and the machine shakes and vibrates till you think it is going to fly to pieces and till...
Even 25 tons is something to be considered in the present crisis. The recent Fuel Administration orders show how serious this is; but even so it is plain that we must not look to the coal directly saved as a very powerful argument in support of the plan. Its strength must be in indirect saving, such as lightening late traffic on the Subway, and making more feasible an earlier closing. Neither does the University stand alone. It would be part of a nation-wide effort to economize; and it is not improbable that many other universities and colleges would take...
Letters from France recently received in Boston lay much emphasis on an American agency that is doing a far-reaching work for good among our boys overseas--the American University Union, which has taken possession of the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris. And it should be made plain that there are no unhappy class distinctions in the work in question, for the headquarters and bureau are maintained "for the friends" of our college boys in France, as well as for the boys themselves. The work was inevitable from the first, in view of the thousands of young American collegians, alumni...
...decorations were plain; one orchestra was used instead of two; and the supper was simpler than on former occasions. The net proceeds were given to three charitable and educational institutions connected with the university...