Word: sink
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Finally, we are told that "democracy demands a general referendum before a declaration of war." And what is to happen to us while the referendum vote is being taken? In the present controversy Germany could continue to kill our people, to sink our ships, could send submarines into our harbors while we peacefully prepared to vote, telling her to be careful since we might vote against allowing her to continue. What a disappointment such a vote would be to Germany! How hurt she would feel to have her fun stopped! It might even make her angry...
...submarine activity not as an attempt to blockade England, but as an attempt to destroy her commerce by a host of raiders, we will be confronted by two facts. First, the submarines can make no provision for the safety of the crews of the vessels destroyed, and intend to sink merchant ships on sight. Such action of course is a direct repudiation of all German promises to America. The second apparent fact is that Germany has had the insolence to dictate to us just how many ships we may send to England, when they must arrive, what port they must...
...been held among the undergraduates of Harvard. The large majority have suddenly realized this shameful ignorance of the vital questions of principle and policy that the leaders of the government are facing today. It is unfortunately the exceptional student who knows definitely whether Germany has the legal right to sink American ships should diplomatic relations be severed between the United States and that country. Only a very few have a clear idea of the historical facts which point to the reasons for the nation's present crisis. The habit of taking an intelligent interest in national questions must first...
...appointed. It may be advantageous to open the CRIMSON columns, heretofore passing over probation in silence, to the publication of delinquents. Whatever the committee decides or accomplishes, however, the greatest power behind probation will be undergraduate opinion. Let the many who inwardly disapprove of the men who sink into probation, express their disapproval. At least let all in the place of those named above realize that they have not reached that place without losing the respect of some...
...assistance of the Employment Bureau. According to the report of the secretary for last year the number of positions provided was almost 2,000 and the total amount earned by the students during the whole year was over $100,000. The struggles and achievements of other men sink into insignificance beside those of the men who earn their own education. Of her self-supporting men, especially, Harvard may well be proud, for many of them are distinguished not only in scholarship but in undergraduate activities as well...