Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessary to point out that the hard-won and none too stable peace of Europe is in grave danger as long as the Germans are allowed to keep such a formidable army. Immediate action by the Allies will put a stop to the budding menace. Every effort must be made to keep the Treaty of Versailles from becoming a second Peace of Tilsit...
...little red brick colonial structure in the Harvard yard known as Massachusetts Hall, so small that it could be put inside the dining room in Memorial Hall, is the oldest university building in the United States. The two hundredth anniversary of its erection falls within the present College year, and plans are under way for the suitable commemoration of the event. The great and General Court made a grant of 8500 pounds in 1718 for the building of a "new college" to be named in honor of the province, and in 1720 the hall was completed. Princeton's "Old Nassau...
...upperclassmen make use of the pools, the basketball court, the bowling alleys, the handball courts and the array of apparatus which lines the walls of the gymnasiums. In squash, in the courts of the Randolph Gymnasium, more men exercise than in almost all the rest of the informal squads put together. Daily the fourteen courts are filled at half-hour intervals from 1.30 until 6 o'clock affording a game to over...
...that the conclusion has been grounded on a groundless minor premise which somehow seems to have crept into many a superficial, unhistorical mind. Despite mischievous Machiavellian (Japanese) misrepresentations and overbubbling Senatorial sentimentalism, the plain, broad historical fact remains that Shantung, the cradle of Cathayan civilization, has stayed put as Chinese--and stood pat against alien intrusion, I will add--since time immemorial; and Chinese will it ever be without need of capturing, let alone d'Annunzio and his army. Academically put, the political sovereignty of Shantung is never in question. FREDERIC...
There are but two ways to satisfactorily meet this situation: the faculty must either give up the idea entirely and return to the high school theory of nothing but assigned lessons, or it must put the tutorial system on a sounder basis. To make it successful would mean a diminution in the required classroom routine and a decrease in the number of tests to compensate for the added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb...