Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sharp point in favor of the cleaner. The broom comes along and takes the dust off the floor all right, but by the time the goodie has finished making the bed and cleaning out the fireplace the dust has settled down again to do business at the same old stand, until it is disturbed on the morrow in the same fashion. It is the occupant of the college-owned dormitory who, on leaving his room with the advent of the goodie and her broom, realizes that dust he is, and unto dust he is, and unto dust he will return...
...arrangement of our College day has not kept pace with the growing interest in "athletics for all." As matters now stand, men frequently cut their "two-thirty" classes; some for University athletics, and a larger number for mere exercise. The "two-thirty" is unfortunately prominent in the list of popular antipathies of college...
Last week the CRIMSON sent a letter to President Wilson, signed by about 250 members of the University assuring him of the support of the undergraduates in the stand which he had taken in the present crisis, and pledging him our support in case a recourse to force proved necessary...
...moves us to reply. The author has a lot of good ideas, though he suggests no constructive plan of reform. One regrets that he feels it necessary to crouch under a pseudonym: we should like it better if he signed his name, better still if he would stand on his feet in that Forum which he scorns and meet his opponents face to face. For his tone is sneering, and some of his statements are debatable. There are many who would like to take up his accusation of undergraduate hypocrisy--and not a few who would question his estimate...
...undersigned, members of Harvard University, beg to assure you that we endorse the stand you have taken in regard to the sacred rights, not only of Americans but of all mankind, and that we have confidence in your wisdom and justice. It is our hope and our prayer that under your guidance this country may keep God's peace, but if in upholding this country's dignity and honor, you deem recourse to the use of force necessary, we pledge you our support...