Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present management of the Advocate has made one change from methods of previous years highly to be commended. In place of the former stand-and-deliver method of extracting a criticism from the reviewer when the paper to be criticized was presented to you almost without warning, and with it a virtual ultimatum that your review must be ready in three hours, now comes, with all possible courtesy and consideration, no less a person than the president of the Advocate himself, two or three weeks before he wants his review, to ask when it will be agreeable...
...contents, the latest Advocate is creditable but not remarkable. Once at least it ought to have been more carefully edited; the indefensible use of human in the sense of "human being" is allowed to stand in the first story-- a fault the more conspicuous, because the idiomatic phrase, "neither man nor beast" would so naturally occur to one in place of the ugly "neither beast nor human." But in general, the paper, both in its prose and its verse, shows the right feeling for style. If the authors had more to say than they have here, evidently they would know...
Soldiers, whether in uniform or out of it, are expected to stand at salute from the beginning to the end of any rendition of the anthem that takes place where they are present. Also, when an army band plays the tune, it must be played through, without the repetition of any part not required to be repeated to make it complete...
Three scholarships for special students in the School of Architecture with an income of $200 each are offered by the University for the academic year 1917-18. The scholarships will be awarded to those candidates who, having fulfilled all other conditions, stand highest in a competition in architectural design to be conducted by the University...
...order to answer definitely the numerous queries as to the stand which the University would take in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Germany, the following outline of the steps which have been taken in preparation for war was given out at the College Office yesterday afternoon...