Word: stand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this column is read by the authorities I should like to suggest an improvement in the new drying rooms at the gymnasium. Under the present conditions one comes up dripping from the bath and while he dries himself has to stand round on the cold asphalt pavement, often in puddles of water left by other fellows. Now a slat floor laid on joists over the concrete and made in sections so as to be easily taken up would be far more comfortable to the feet, and would shed all waste water. How the thousand or more bathers would appreciate such...
...twenty-first of last month a few men wrote as members of Harvard University, calling on all Harvard men to oppose the government's stand on the Venezuelan question...
...merits of the question. "We assert," it says, "that it is a duty entailed upon us as citizens of the United States to do everything in our power to oppose the war spirit so rampant now." Now if Mr. Warner or any other man can show us that the stand taken by the United States on this question is wrong he ought to do so and thus prove Mr. Roosevelt to be wrong. The trouble is that he fights shy of the main question...
This plan, simple and effective, was carried out to the letter. With unrivalled skill, Sherman made a long detour, and, wholly unexpected, gained a strong foothold on Bragg's right. Thom as also advanced and took a firm stand on the foot-hills. It was then, profiting by Bragg's confusion, that Hooker made his brilliant capture of Lookout Mountain. His troops had to move painfully around the edge of the mountain from west to east, before they could so much as find a place for ascent. At last they reached a winding cart-track, and up they went, until...
...selection of candidates for Class Day officers has been made at Technology, and the following men will stand for election on December 31, at the class meeting...