Word: stress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stress and strain of war times many duties have been neglected and many opportunities passed by in the University. Attendance at Chapel comes under both of these classes. For not even the increased demand upon the time of the student is sufficient to excuse the poor showing which has been made in the last year and a half both at Sunday services and at week-day prayers...
...will meet the "volunteer platoon" on Wednesday morning at 7.30 at the Weld Boathouse. The benefit of this special drill is open to any and all members of the regiment who desire extra drill. Special opportunity will be given to each man to command the platoon and special stress will be laid upon the part of the drill which is desired by those present...
...first blush this seizure seems like an unwarranted grabbing of neutral property. However, this is far from being the case. A well-known and established right of international law, the right of angary, allows belligerents to seize neutral shipping found in its territories, under stress of necessity and with proper compensation. Our need for more ships is great and ever-increasing. Holland will, of course, receive full payment for the use of her property...
Professor Theodore William Richards '86, director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory at the University, emphasized, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, the importance of chemists in war and peace. While laying great stress on the overwhelming importance of bending all energies to a successful prosecution of the war, he refuted the conception that chemistry is primarily a war science, gave an idea of the great benefit it can be to humanity, and spoke of the need for chemists today and in the future. Professor Richards said...
...hides the grinning skeleton of other wars; of national and personal deceit; of the advance repudiation of the very obligations they propose to take; of the absolute indifference to Right; of the utter lack of aggregate and individual honor. All these are gladly lost, sunk, destroyed, in the mad stress to achieve unholy means to unholy ends. It is hopeless to treat for peace with sovereigns so entirely turned from right to wrong thought. But one thing these peace offers with baleful, hidden purposes will do: they will fix forever our determination to conquer this Intolerable Thing and to turn...