Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which are considerably larger and more heavily endowed, such as the Architectural School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has the support and backing of one of the best technical institutions in the country. Yet not only did the Harvard school, which is working under much greater difficulties, win seven of the eight awards, but the general quality of the drawings it submitted were much superior to those of either of the other competing institutions...
...showing of the University School of Architecture in this prize competition was highly creditable. Not only did their drawings win seven out of the eight awards made, but the general quality of them was much superior to those submitted by the other institutions. The exhibit of these drawings in Rogers Hall, Boylston street, Boston, will be open to the public during the remainder of the week...
...fencing room of Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon at 3.30. This will be the third meet of the season for the University team, Bowdoin and Springfield Y. M. C. A. having been defeated. The Pennsylvania swordsmen are all veterans and will make the Crimson fencers show their best to win. Patterson, the leader of the Pennsylvania team, is a fencer of great skill and the match between him and Captain W. H. Russell '18 will bring together two of the best college fencers in the country. E. R. Gay '19 and R. G. Crimmins '19 with Captain Russell will make...
This is the simple algebra of the game with Yale tonight. If the third term of the second equation, support for the team, is added, Harvard will win. But if the third term of the equation is subtracted our chances will be greatly diminished. This is the simple problem; there is no substituting of terms...
...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...