Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...school winning the largest number of points, each victory counting as one point, will receive the shield offered by the Athletic Association, and the individual winner and runner-up will each receive cups. As they stand at present, the scores of the schools are: Andover 9, Exeter 5, Milton 3, Newton High 3, Boston Latin 2. Both of the St. Mark's representatives were defeated in the first round...
...full year's work. This repeal, incidentally, has aroused considerable resentment among the students and stirred the CRIMSON to an editorial which speaks of a "lack of fulfillment of patriotic duty." . ... . But, logic or no logic, the CRIMSON is right. This is no time to let a few weeks stand in the way of the patriotic future of any man. At the moment, reputations greater than that of any professional school at are stake. The country needs army officers and every intelligent man who wants to become one should be given all encouragement. Least of all should he be penalized...
...words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove of Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value of the city as they did at Verdun, but the events of the last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will not be because of the defection...
...going to the trouble of giving the undergraduate camp aspirants special exams.; why should not the Law School do as much? Granting that the study of law presents problems which do not exist in an academic course, nevertheless the studies of three paltry weeks should not be allowed to stand in the way of a man's future, when this future is to be devoted to the service of his country...
...lately donned the uniforms of the Army and Navy streamed by like a river. Most of the massed populace could see only the peaked Army hats or the white caps of cadets--many, indeed, nothing but the points of serried bayonets and the mounted officers. We chanced to stand on the Common where the uniformed men could be seen only when they emerged from the multitude along Boylston street as the column swung into Park square. Presently a flag came floating along in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause...