Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief argument of the opposition as set forth by those who have been most conspicuous in their attack on the proposal of a league of nations is as follows: the entry of the United States into such an agreement would mean ignoring completely the once timely injunction of Washington in 1796,throwing over the Monroe Doctrine of 1824 and becoming inextricably involved in a tangle of European jealousies and alliances in 1924. President Lowell once said that the league of nations is in no more danger of upsetting the Monroe Doctrine than it is of upsetting the price of sugar...
...inadequate idea of a man's real life and work. In the present case they are even less significant than usual. The key to the characters and career of the man whom Harvard mourns today was his overflowing. human sympathy. It enabled him to vitalize everything to which he set his hand, to turn the most perfunctory and mechanical bit of drudgery into an interesting and important task. It was the source of his success as a teacher and administrator. It made him a host of friends, young and old, who flocked to him for help and advice on every...
...their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity for important service,-and the book or article would be set aside, and the job that was immediately necessary performed in its stead. Harvard was invariably the gainer by his self-sacrifice. No university can go on without the sort of devotion that he gave. It is only too rarely that such devotedness can be found...
...executive board of the Class of 1921 has decided to award a Memorial Scholarship to a member of the Freshman Class. This continues the custom set by the 1919 Sophomore class of awarding a Memorial Scholarship to a Freshman out of the fund in the class treasury...
...world is in flux. In this crucial hour--this plastic stage of civilization--we can mould America into a solid and enduring permanency of true character; or we can let it be misshapen and distorted until like some great evil full of ugliness it becomes "set" and adamantine for wrong...