Word: told
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Tardieu told the story of the Franco-Russian alliance. He divided it into three periods: preparation, deviation, and regeneration. The period of preparation lasted until 1891. It was not easy to bring together France and Russia, between whom there was so much difference. Nevertheless it was finally realized that, as Bismarck had said, a Franco-Russian alliance must result from the very nature of things and that it was a geographical necessity...
...Tardieu told several anecdotes about the men who have been personally engaged in Franco-Russian politics and with whom he was personally acquainted...
...pink tights and the white pony is made to tell her story; and the insistence upon the setting by references to the passing crowds of trippers and the sights and sounds of a seaside resort seems forced and mechanical. Mr. Schenck's "Psychical Research" is rather well told, but the conclusion is obxions almost from the start. "The Conciliator," by H. Edgell, a fish story in New England dialect, and "McVane's Retirement." by R. E. Andrews, the story of a railroad wreck, are decidedly conventional both in style and plot. Mr. Wheclock's poem. "A Work...
...undergraduates and Faculty, comparing the situation with the turbulent times 10 years earlier. At that time, continues the editorial, "all questions bearing directly on student interests were settled by the Faculty, with comparatively little consideration of the student opinions on these questions. The result was inevitable. The men were told, 'You must do such and such a thing,' and immediately the natural dislike to being treated like children brought out the reply...
...vote taken at the last meeting of the Faculty advising a curtailment of the number of intercollegiate contests calls for more than passing notice. The expression of opinion we are told has been sent not only to the authorities in Cambridge, but to the Association of Colleges in New England, an organization that includes a large percentage of Harvard's athletic rivals. At home it will carry great weight, but abroad it is too likely to be heard with indifferent respect. Coming at a time when all Harvard men are awaiting the outcome of an effort to restore athletic relations...