Word: standing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...life. If you employ both arms in that game you will be in danger of stooping; in danger of losing your soul. But in spite of every thing you may succeed, you may be successful, you may acquire enormous wealth. In which case I warn you that you stand in grave danger of being spoken and written of and pointed out as a smart man. And that is one of the most terrible calamities that can overtake a sane, civilized white man in our empire today...
...Hughes, Bryan would have received 130 votes and Hughes 886. Johnson, if nominated, would have received 178 votes to Hughes's 838. Bryan would have had 115 to Taft's 901, and Johnson would have had 265 to Taft's 751. This appears to show that Johnson would stand a better chance than Bryan against either of the Republican candidates...
Again the Faculty has recommended the curtailment of athletic schedules, directing its recommended this time entirely at the Athletic Committee, and phrasing it far more forcefully. The CRIMSON has already taken its stand on this matter, and can only repeat that it is not in sympathy with any material reductions of the athletic programs; that it believes intercollegiate athletic relations are a unifying force, an education, and a necessity; that material reduction in the number of contests without the co-operation of our rivals will not only place us at a hopeless disadvantage, but will be the death-blow...
...Elder, of Winchester, a prominent Boston lawyer and Yale graduate. He said that it was gratifying to see that Harvard was supporting a Yale graduate, Taft, as strongly and sincerely as Yale, a few years ago, had supported Roosevelt, a Harvard man. He said that both Hughes and Taft stand for civic honesty and the purity of the country, but that Taft, because of his superior equipment and indomitable courage, was the better man. In closing, he said that Taft should be elected for he has always stood by the President and his principles. And these should be continued...
...Olympic teams have been composed chiefly of college athletes. The latter will find it hard to keep in the best of condition for both meets, and will undoubtedly wish to be at their best for the intercollegiate contest. Why not, therefore, allow the records made at the intercollegiates to stand as their trial, with the meet on June 6 open only to men not eligible to take part in that between the colleges...