Word: plaine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing to pay hard money for; you will find nothing but a plain, unvarnished appeal to the provincial American's pocket-book. High tariff! Business profits...
...wainscoating of the Hall of the Union were intended for just such a purpose. I happened to be present when the architect, Mr. C. F. McKim, was discussing his plans for the Union with Mr. Higginson and others, and he said then that he hoped that the plain panels would genually be replaced by carved once inscribed with the names of Harvard men whose friends wished to perpetuate their memory there. Beyond a few such panels put in at that time I believe that this wish and expectation of the architect has not been fulfilled. If such a panel were...
...vigorous protest from Yale against extravagant expenditures in college athletics has come not a moment too soon. It puts into plain language what the authorities of many other institutions have been thinking but have not ventured to speak aloud. Yale can utter this protest with good grace for she has not been by any means the worst offender...
...took us two days in Bombay to get our hot weather outfits. Then we moved up on to the great central plain to Poona, where we had a couple of days looking around monist the convalescents from Mesopotamia, and where we left one of the Cornell fellows who came with us. Nash was sent directly to Murree, where the opening of a new field needed a man at once. The other Cornell fellow and myself were lucky enough to be sent down to Bangalore, away to the south and called the garden city of India. There we had a wonderful...
...Illustrated announces the election of Arthur Reynolds Nelson '19, of Jamaica Plain, and William Robie Swart '19, of Nashua, N. H., as photographic editors; and of Paul Blodgett Elliot '19, of Rochester, as a business editor. These men were the successful contestants in the regular spring competitions, which started in March and were brought to a close last evening...