Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eighties when the Harvard Advocate was something of a close corporation, the Monthly appeared to answer the call for a democratic College magazine. Since that day life in the University has changed, and now men stand more nearly on an equal footing with their fellow-students. Both of our literary papers have felt this liberalizing influence, and as a result the policies of each are so nearly identical that a little effort would make them coincide. The former cause for separation has disappeared...
...such men have the old days in mind. Others oppose on sentimental grounds. Their influence with the boards is great, for to some extent they subsidize both papers. This last fact is one of the best arguments for the change. With a clear field, one magazine could doubtless stand alone...
...Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest of the country. If those three facts are granted, as I think they must be, we are forced to the conclusion that Harvard University, being judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile, prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history. All of which (is more hurtful to us in prestige and) also in the development of character here, than it can be done to the cause of President Wilson before the country...
Memorial Hall stands today at Harvard in tribute to all those connected with the University who served in the American Civil War. Tablets and memorial windows especially perpetuate the names of those who lost their lives in service. A similar scheme, it seems proper, should be worked out for the commemoration of those who felt the call equally strong to go forth to battle for and to assist in the cause which had their devotion in the present war. The place suggested for the new memorial is Soldiers Field, and there it seems indeed fitting that the statue or other...
...Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...