Word: plight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale and Princeton have both signed up for a number of matches in Philadelphia and it is probable that several games of the triangular series between Princeton, Yale, and the University will be played there. Yale's hockey plight is caused by the alteration of the New Haven Arena from a skating rink into an association for general sports...
...removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track team's plight by a clear presentation of the subject. It is gratifying to note that the table is to be resumed at once, and we feel confident that its benefits will promptly and amply justify its creation...
...current issue of Vanity Fair contains an article by John Jay Chapman entitled "Harvard's Plight," a renewed complaint against the composition of the Corporation. Although we were surprised to find such a weighty subject discussed in a publication which seldom enters upon academic questions, the matter is too important to be dismissed without thought or comment. Mr. Chapman declares that Harvard is run by State Street bankers and that they have caused a spirit of "commercialism" to pervade its former intellectual atmosphere...
...taken into custody during the war is as complete as ever; the controlling force is acting under a new name, but that is almost the-only-difference. No effort and no outlay of money is being spared to mould opinion in America to a favorable view of Germany's plight. Nothing is overlooked that might create a breach between Allied troops and the Armies of the United States. It is in these phases of present German activity that the University must take more of an interest than it has manifested up to the present time. If one will but take...
...Eastern Railroads have again come before the Interstate Commerce Commission asking for an increase of rates, as under existing conditions they are rapidly approaching financial exhaustion. Not even the most cynical anti-capitalist can deny that the plight of the railroads is desperate, and that as a direct result of this the market is now in a panic condition, with consequent business demoralization throughout the land. It has been estimated that seventeen billion dollars have been invested in American carriers, and short sighted is the government which for political reasons, is going to prevent such investors from getting a reasonable...