Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will stand squarely on the National Progressive platform although I do not believe that all the propaganda contained in that document can be embodied in practical measures in one or even in several sessions of legislatures and Congresses. I am firmly convinced that the Progressive party will persevere until it gains complete control of the Massachusetts legislature; and therefore it must begin...
...other men who ran against Yale at New Haven the following six are out for the team this fall: F. H. Blackman '14, R. St.B. Boyd '14, C. W. Burrage '13, F. W. Copeland '13, A. F. deGozzaldi '14 and H. M. Warren '13. Of these Copeland and Boyd stand out because of their consistently good work and these two men with Captain Lawless will make a trio hard to defeat...
...influence in bringing together all members of the University, the present governing board is bending every energy toward making membership in this democratic institution most alluring. In the words of its founder, the Union is "a house open to all Harvard men without restriction and in which they all stand equal--a house bearing no name forever except that of our University." It is to this end--"to make the house open to all Harvard men and in which they all stand equal"--that the present governing board is making every effort...
...seems unwise to subject a man to the stigma of probation even though he may stand high in scholarship, merely because he has not passed an oral examination in a particular language. The case would be exactly analogous to that of inflicting probation for failure to pass in the prescribed Freshman English, French, or German, if that were the rule, which fortunately it is not. If probation comes to be the uniform penalty for failure in some particular course, will it not lose all its weight in the minds of the undergraduates...
...community the duty of being a scholar and in this we rely upon you and trust you, and the authorities of the University stand always ready to help...