Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the brilliant season of the hockey team, something may be said in justification of this branch of athletics as a major sport. Two facts stand out indisputably. Hockey at Harvard is, and has been, a highly successful sport. Several championships have been registered in it for the University; and a similar record is apparent with the Freshman teams. Secondly, it holds pre-eminence as a winter sport, especially since swimming is handicapped by the lack of a pool. Including managerial competitions and scrub teams, more than 200 men are concerned with hockey during the season, and this number...
...land on which the Freshman dormitories now stand was once a part of the river. But gradually the shore was built out as an ash-heap, so that all the land within one hundred and fifty feet of the river is now made up mostly of ashes. Large wooden piles were uncovered by the workmen last fall when they were taking out the old trees from this land. These piles were foundations of gas wharves at which coal barges used to unload...
...strive to adapt herself to new conditions. A series of reforms were already in effect before the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. Of these, the educational policy underwent the most radical change. Western scientific courses were introduced, and the examinations on old classics were abolished. Today schools for new learning stand on the ground of the spacious examination halls...
...project has met with the approval of the university and the class of 1918 will immediately proceed to sell stock and raise the money for the new dormitory. The Yale Alumni Weekly says: "The stand of the present sophomores, unwilling to face a third year as campus outcasts and yet ready to put their shoulders to the wheel in the matter of providing adequate freshman dormitory accommodations, cannot but command respectful attention and applause...
...Mayor Rockwood's campaign for mayor, and Representative K. P. Hill were the witnesses heard today. Reading was examined and cross-examined at length, but Hill's direct examination was brief, and he was not cross-examined. Herbert Parker, senior counsel for the defence, rested after Hill left the stand and called no witnesses in rebuttal. Arguments in the case began...