Word: rock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee and the Student Council, Bradley de Lamater Nash, of Brookline, has been appointed manager of the 1923 football team. Other appointments include that of Edwin Sibley Webster, of Chestnut Hill as assistant manager; of Clifton Powell Fordyce, of Little Rock, Ark., as 1923 interclass football manager; of Morris Duane, of Philadelphia, Pa, as manager of the Smith Halls team: of Joseph Larocque, of New York City, as manager of the Gore Hall team, and of John Gardiner Flint, of Boston, as manager of the Standish Hall team...
...Great Rock in a Weary Land...
...Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, a man who, in the desolation of his country, stood as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land...
...national prohibition by repeal of the amendment is out of the question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction...
...solid bottom rock of the plan of the League of Peace is, therefore, the fact that though an association of moderately democratic countries has overcome the militaristic combine which tried to make itself the dominant power in the world, peace will leave the conquered countries in ruins, unless the solid, stable part of the world unites to set it in order and to give it the opportunity to grow into strength. A combination of nations has been found absolutely necessary to fight the war; without some combination of nations, there will be another war to fight before many years...