Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dates for this year's boxing tournament have been definitely set for March 8 and 9. The tourney this year will be held in Hemenway Gymnasium instead of the Union. There will be bouts in the 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 165, and 175-pound and heavyweight classes...
...roasting of the pig stand for the object of a war, let the man stand for the American people, and the house for the American civilization which is a-building. Now let us suppose the man is deliberating whether he will roast the pig, and, if so, whether by setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects of a war?" They may be any of a myriad of things. Assume that the principal object is to defend American lives on the seas. Then we must ask, "Shall...
...effectively defend American lives on the seas and with less damage to the lives and institutions on land? Suppose there are not. Then are lives on the seas more precious than the lives and activities on land, which would be burned up by war? Against sea rights we must set the rights of those who stay at home to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We must remember that much of our progress toward more freedom of opportunity and more enjoyment of human rights would be arrested. Such constructive undertakings as the Constitutional Convention in this state would...
...12th annual Junior Dance. The decorations, though not elaborate, were artistic and unconventional, and made the Union appear at its best. White Colonial columns and lattices covered with smilax enclosed the boxes, and strings of rosebuds lit with tiny electric bulbs draped from the chandeliers. Baskets of lotus set on columns, marked the entrance to the Living Room. The orchestra was enclosed behind spreading fans of flowers. From the balcony hung the American flag, while at the other end was the Harvard 1918 banner. The several hundred who attended the dance proclaimed it a success and were loath to leave...
France, the most ideally democratic country in the world today, thought out quickly what she had to do and set about to do it in a way so remarkably effective as to surprise the world. There was no referendum. To be sure, there was the universal service system in France. But that system (which the people as a whole voted for several years ago) in compelling responsibility, made the great mass of men think and fight with a finer spirit than thoughtless men can ever know. It was not referendum that made them think; it was the realization of their...