Word: weal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...women have shown since April last. In all matters of war relief and charity, they have shown themselves able organizers; and in the province of housekeeping and food conservation, they have proved themselves intelligent, thrifty and capable. At a time when everyone is doing his best for the common weal, the women of the land have stood out preeminently for the spirit they have shown, and the results they have accomplished. Their success, then, should be regarded not as a political victory, but as a delicate compliment to the success of their work occasioned directly or indirectly...
...terms of the second prize contest announced in the current number of the Advocate. As was not the case last year, the prizes are restricted to undergraduates, and the subjects of the essays are assigned. Six questions are submitted for discussion: they all deal with matters which concern "the weal of Harvard";--two are claimed by athletics; two by matters more strictly academic (not to say pedagogic); and the remaining two deal with what might be called the "social" questions of our College life, using the word in its broader sense. They are all "live topics", and should stimulate...
President Eliot spoke of the public weal, and introduced the last speaker, Judge F. C. Lowell '76, who fully explained the "Freeman's Oath," and then administered it to those who desired...