Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Senior said recently: "I'm ashamed to stand out in front of Sever between classes and see the number of men in my own class with whom I haven't even a bowing acquaintance. I realize it is much more my fault than theirs. In the present Senior class there may be a President of the United States; there surely are men who will make big successes in life. I'd hate to have to confess that I spent four years in College without ever meeting, or indeed hearing of such...
...movement for this agreement has come from the clubs themselves, and is an action of undergraduates, acting with graduate advice, but without tangible connection with the Faculty, is one of its best features. It shows that the undergraduates are eager to co-operate in making the Freshman dormitories stand for class unity...
...insure good-faith on the part of correspondents, all communications must be signed. If desired, the writer's name need not appear in print, and will remain a closely-guarded secret. However, it is only fair that a man who desires a public hearing should be willing to stand back of his opinions. Under the conditions, the CRIMSON will be only too glad to conduct public arguments...
...late Lord Roberts once declared: "If ten points represent the complete soldier, eight of them should stand for his efficiency as a rifle shot...
...University sport in England is primarily Oxford and Cambridge sport. It true that there are other universities England, but (except from the stand point of scholarship pure and simple) they count for little. 'To go up to the University' means ordinarily to become student at Oxford or Cambridge. It as been said that an understanding of English society is necessary to a comprehension of English politics. It might equally well have been said of English University sport. Both politics and 'varsity sport' are the amusements of a class which has no counterpart in this country...