Word: standing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...each other. This system has gradually decayed, and with its decline the employees have been able to realize themselves more fully. Their scope has broadened, and they are approaching more and more that condition in which by fellowship and co-operation. In short by union, they are able to stand on an equal footing with their employers...
...national election, when the undergraduate world is stirred up scarcely less than the country at large, when a Hughes Club, a Taft Club, and a Democratic Club, are all making active preparations for a part in the campaign, our old stand-by the Political club is strangely inactive. Compared with previous years the club has accomplished but little this year, and now of all times when we need the advice of political leaders on questions of national and local importance, it is not rallying to the occasion. Much as some disapprove of the methods adopted, there is no doubt that...
...these the undergraduates will agree heartily; but there is another consideration, probably the most important of all in determining our ability to draw students from distant states, that the graduates are too much inclined to overlook. As affairs stand today the western man is at a great disadvantage in the undergraduate community, partly because he is not known by preparatory school connections. The disadvantage is by no means insuperable--indeed it is easily overcome by a man of some congeniality and the average amount of energy...
...fiction is not up to the standard of the more solid portion of the number. "The Tryst of the Princess Yvonne" is ambitious, but the ambition has not o'erleapt itself; indeed, it has fallen very short. The dramatic situations fall to stand up, and the ending of the tale leaves' the reader quite unmoved. The"Cupid in Yorkshire," by E. W. Huckel, is very much better, but might more properly have been entitled "The Precocious Child," for the powers of observation and reasoning displayed by the supposed narrator, are of a high order, and are properly recognized...
...first point. Harvard has always stood at the head in educational matters; she has stood in a position that made it right for her to take the lead and in a measure dictate to the others. Unfortunately this is not her lot in the athletic world. She cannot stand alone, boldly demanding that those of equal athletic prestige do as she says...