Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...however small its influence may be, it should not be withheld, especially with conditions as they are now. "Politics are for the politicians," said a certain Harvard professor some years ago. That day has passed. If the thinking people, the educated people, the people with the courage to stand up for their convictions and the energy and ability to disseminate their ideas, do not take an active interest in the affairs of the day. Bolshevism will be the least of our troubles! And in order that, as Harvard Graduates, the members of the College may contribute something really worth while...
...both strive to be literary papers is, I am aware, excellent ground in which to plant rumors. But the Harvard Magazine reaps in fields other than those from which the Advocate procures its harvest. The Advocate, as one man, agrees with you most heartily that the Harvard Magazine should stand on its merits. It was in accordance with this idea that I had removed from the number now in press a cartoon unfavorable to the Harvard Magazine. In justice, let me add that the majority of the Advocate Board was critical of the wisdom of running any such notice...
...England thinks that America has made a great earnest sacrifice and that now the two countries must stand together. The British would be amazed if we did not follow them up. Britain has not always been able to find her ideal leader but at this time she has found salvation in the man who is qualified to lead, more by circumstances than by the devotion of the intellectual classes. And to this choice the British expect to find a parallel in America's future conduct, for the circumstances are no less urgent and the end is far greater...
...should like to congratulate the CRIMSON on its stand in reference to the Harvard Magazine and the scurrilous red-covered parody thereon; but we think a word more might be said...
...genuine Harvard Magazine will stand or fail on the merits of its present and three coming issues, and on the degrees of strong competition it may receive from the Advocate. It has faults,--some which the CRIMSON noticed were pointed out yesterday morning,--but its existence will be based on its ability to overcome these faults, not on jealous and anonymous attacks...