Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just as necessary for the welfare of our country as liberty and equality are. Whereas the United States is a country which has grown up in simplicity, at present things have been changed a good deal and dishonesty of all kinds has slowly but surely crept in. To counteract this dishonesty and to crush it, is one of the greatest duties of the present generation...
Considering the disadvantages which attend the work of such a crew as the Bradford eight, it is highly probable that the efforts to counteract President Barry's intentions will be successful...
...elective system tends to separate the classes and to destroy class feeling. To counteract this we should take advantage of every opportunity to cement the class firmly. Few such chances are left to '89, so the members should exert themselves to attend the dinner and contribute their part to increase the good fellowship. Eighty-nine has made a good record in college of which she may well be proud, and she has never been charged with lack of class patriotism. The dinner a year ago was a proof of the loyalty of her members. Her junior dinner was the largest...
...them. Congressional reforms have little interest for them, and present European politics are too complicated and need too patient study to be carefully followed. This is simply the result of one's finding himself set down in the whirl of events without an understanding of their causes; and to counteract this result a course in the topics of the day is needed. The field of the course would, to be sure, be changeable, but in general it should cover the history and present statutes of pending movements and changes in American and European politics. Beside this it should include...
...goes into business is already earning his living when he who has chosen a professional career is just making his start. The age at which men graduate has showed a continual tendency to advance, and few now leave the college before they are twenty-three years old. To counteract this tendency, which, although theoretically advantageous, is practically very inconvenient. Time must be saved wherever possible, since the faculties who are most conversant in the subject recommend the shortening of the period of study. We hope to see the necessary action soon taken, so that those who are now in college...