Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...growth of these activities is useful not merely for the contribution they make to the intellectual life of the public surrounding our colleges. The institutions themselves stand to gain by building up such a "department of the exterior." The deeper root the colleges take in the actual life and environment of the people around them the more healthy their own life as academies is bound to become. And the contribution is sometimes specific as well as general. In one New England college the course of lectures on ethical problems which a professor arranged for a series of Sunday night meetings...
...After having passed the reviewing stand 50 yards, each company commander will cause his company to take up the double time and continue that rate of marching for about 100 yards...
...satisfied with flunking all men who believed a muster and a parade to be synonymous, the military caste decided to allow no such ignorant individuals to hold any position of authority. The former captains and top-sergeants will now condole with each other as they stand at attention in the rear rank. To have blown first sergeant's call once to often or to have put an extra mule in the field kitchen,--such mistakes brand a man as being unworthy of command...
...Illustrated without any other desire than that of fairness and impartiality in class and student council elections, has taken this stand. R. ROELOFS, JR., '18, PRES., The Harvard Illustrated...
...your paper of Oct. 25, 1917, I saw a caustic criticism of Yale's athletic stand. One sentence states: "There never has been any real reason why Yale should not have gone into football at the start of the college year as most other universities have done...