Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given an importance disproportionate to their part in the college. Hence the CRIMSON urges undergraduates, as a matter of duty to support athletic teams--or for that matter to go to a lecture in the Union. Whereas, were it entirely desirable that a strict laissez-faire attitude should prevail at Harvard such misplaced emphasis and such expectations would be at once childish and in poor taste...
...have all observed, however, there is some difficulty in making "black" rhyme with "through" and "prevail" with "Princeton". What we need for Princeton are songs manufactured for the purpose. There is no reason at all why the project of writing some words and music peculiarly suited to the Tiger should have to be popularized. There is talent here, and a demand--witness the numerous letters on the subject. All we need is a supply to meet the demand...
Unless the people have suddenly come to the belief that our system of government is undesirable it will support the President. With an awakened public there is no danger tha the avowed doctrine of Syndicalists and the doctrine by which the action of the Brotherhoods is justified shall prevail. But if the issue is not realized, the vital nature of the situation grasped, we may awake tomorrow to find government by the people, for the people and of the people a matter of history...
...tell him anything," as proof of his allegation. As a neophyte I was considerably impressed by this statement, but managed somehow to reserve my judgment and entered the Freshman class in 1916. In all this time I had heard nothing of the high intellectual standards which prevail at Harvard; the most I knew of the University was its supremacy in athletics (there had been a football victory about that time, I believe...
...opposition of the farmer minority should not be allowed to prevail. Daylight saving is of the utmost benefit to the greater number of the citizens of the state. Prominent doctors say that it is a great factor in maintaining a high standard of health among the over-crowded city population. The slight disadvantage of two time systems has virtually disappeared now that people have become accustomed to the change. The only reasons for repeal are distinctly local and are far outweighed by the advantages of the extra hour of daylight to the community as a whole...