Word: towards
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This last step taken in the attitude of the University toward the Boston riots is a fitting corollary to the part played by graduates and undergraduates in the troubled times last week. The great courage shown by Harvard volunteer policemen in facing the mob of hoodlums has given the University and college men in general a position of trust in the minds of law-abiding citizens. The latter will realize more and more that in education and in the spirit of the atmosphere created at Harvard and other colleges lies the hope of a safe passage at this stormy period...
...saving grace of loyalty is found in many quarters. We have had in the last twenty-four hours a demonstration of notable public spirit, for example, in the action of the President, the Faculty and the students of Harvard University, who have come forward instantly to offer their services toward the preservation of peace and the defence of public order in the city of Boston. President Lowell's call to Harvard men to maintain the University's traditions of public service and put themselves at the disposition of the governor for such duty as he chose to assign to them...
...facile pen and wit of a high order. Mr. Mister gives promise of cultivating or acquiring these by dint of much practice. Although he is far from expert now, his work shows much promise, and even a poor attempt is better than none. Such parodies do much toward stimulating a healthy rivalry, in the same way that Zeppelin raids during the war were almost invariably followed by a rush to the colors...
...American and a Briton who spurned the ground for over 16 hours, adds one more to the long list of aerial accomplishments. The second team the establishment of a new altitude record of 33,136 feet, although of less public interest, still shows that constant progress is being made toward the mastery...
...life of the worker, and a more stable and balanced tendency in the development of the social order. When the summer is over, they will have learned something in the coal mines, factories, mills, stock-yards, or packing-houses, which will enable them to do their full share toward the ultimate removal of the causes of the widespread unrest among the laboring classes which threatens the peace of the world today. Certainly it is beyond controversy that the men who have signed up for these jobs have chosen a most profitable field for the exercise of their energies during...