Word: action
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present action has been made possible by the gift to the Endowment Fund of $50,000 from Max Epstein of Chicago, President of the American Tank Car Company, for a loan fund to be used in assisting able students to pay their tuition and give them general assistance in the Law School...
...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
...should tell it that I was at Harvard once when Mr. Haughtonstein was running the footballers. I think Mr. Haughtonstein is a good football coachman but he is no good for photographers. When I was up by the soldiers' field to get some action picture he had a lot of low life freshmen throw me out of the place. But the laugh is on him because I have been thrown out of a lot of better colleges since...
...likely now that the path has been cleared some action will be taken by the Council. If it were possible to hope that they would reflect not only on the safety of a new plan, but also on the future prestige of Harvard athletics, it would not be long before tennis was a fully recognized University sport. PAUL JACKSON, Asst. Tennis Afgr...
...demand for class solidarity and direct action on the part of some labor leaders has done much to bring about the present mistrust. But the capitalist, who has turned his back on abuses which have occasioned this solidarity, has not helped the situation. Both are like blind men, thinking they perceive an enemy and thrashing about wildly in mutually destructive combat. Only when the energy thus wasted can be turned to a sane recognition of true facts, can we avoid revolution and attack the abuses which obstruct the road to progress...