Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the United States entered the Philippines we out of our own volition assumed responsibility for the inhabitants of those islands and by that act placed ourselves under a grave obligation morally. We have promised time and time again to keep them until we have fitted them for self-government. We have promised to educate them and finally a real independence. We must then maintain our administration in the islands just as long as there remains a shadow of doubt in the minds of the American people that the Filipinos are capable of governing themselves. Then and only then...
...application will be received unless accompanied by a self-addressed envelope with 12 cents in stamps for postage and registry fee, and checks or cash for the amount of tickets applied for. Checks should be made payable to the 1916 Harvard Class Day Committee and sent to W. Rollins '16, Thayer...
...Cummings monopolizes pages eight and nine with a ballad and a sonnet. Literary self-consciousness is too apparent here. In the sonnet, especially, the Brunswick Lion, as we see him in front of the Germanic Museum, is not an extremely happy image with which to conclude verse...
...height of 2000 feet is attained. Next the candidate takes an 80-horsepower model and flies as far and as high as he wishes. He is now ready for his brevet, for which he must undergo three tests: first, stay an hour at a height of 6500 feet with self-registering barograph; second, make a triangular trip of 130 miles inside of 48 hours; third, make a straight flight 100 miles and back in 24 hours with only one stop allowed each...
...wonders, too, what kind of recognition the editor thinks that the rest of the College should give to the Harvard Poetry Society. Is not membership in such a society its own reward? Do the members really have any grievance, or feel that they are "Forced into a defensive self-seclusion by undergraduate carelessness...