Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON believes that it is expressing the feeling of every man in the University when it assures President Wilson that the members of the University approve the stand he has taken at this critical period in the history of our country, that they place full confidence in his wisdom, and that they pledge themselves to stand with him for justice...
...CRIMSON believes that it is its clear duty to express this stand of the University, and to convey an expression of this stand to the President of the United States in this time of stress and storm...
...that far from being a feather-bed for slothful patriotism, undergraduate Harvard is often a hot-bed of too hasty and too vigorous action. Before some of the more impetuous again seek to organize military companies in the College, it would be wise to await official declarations of the stand of our Government...
...Germany. Professor Meyer characterizes the poem as "damnable," and states that Harvard has "silently connived at its wide circulation in the press." Harvard has "wantonly and wickedly gone out of its way to carry strife into the hallowed peace of the academic world," while the University and its President "stand branded before the world and posterity as abetters of international animosity, and traitors to the sacred cause of humanity...
...other great force is found in the seriousness with which the officers and members take their work. Their reports are not merely records of annual proceedings. They are rather the confessions of faith of the writers. They stand as their ideas for future work; and they evince a zeal and a seriousness of purpose which are too often lacking in a college institution...