Word: wield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says: "We are not looking for the sort . . . who courts cheap popularity with his students, nor for the man who will conceive of his position either as that of Captain of the Boy Scouts or as that of a genial host at a protracted house party." He will wield a "civilizing influence." But ultimate authority will rest, as it has heretofore, in the Deans of the undergraduate schools...
...College itself, with 3217 men thus far registered, is larger this year than ever. Last year's figure was 3165. No considerable significance can be attached to any of these changes. Harvard is still growing, and such projects as the house plan, which help to make the whole less wield by reorganizing its structure, may provide relief...
...final match of its season the University fencing team meets the Boston University foilsmen at 7.30 o'clock tonight in the B. U. gymnasium. H. B. Wesselman '31; H. C. Cassidy '31, and J. D. Allen Jr. '31 will be the Crimson competitors, while Desmond, Lavine, and DeVitto will wield the foils for Boston University...
...main address Orator MacDonald touched on a novel topic vital to U. S. citizens: "Freedom of the Seas." If there should be another War would the British Navy again wield the weapon of Blockade? Weaseling well, he answered: "You have signed a pact of peace. And when I say you I mean Canada. . . . We have done the same, France has done the same, Italy has done the same and the United States has done the same! ... If there is to be no war there is to be no blockade. What is the use of bothering ourselves and wasting our time...
...most beneficial effects of a national football code growing out of a national eligibility conference would be the ostracising power that the members could wield over institutions which refused to conform to the regulations. In the past few years there have been several ruptures of relations between colleges caused by disagreement on eligibility rules, notably that between Army and Navy, which would have had some other results than the long stream of recriminations had such a league with a few basic requirements been functioning...