Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...provide a man in the University who will aid the Freshman in all times of need. If conscientiously carried out, this system will become the means of personal contact between the College, and its newest members, and will prevent the feeling that the are allowed by the University to sink or swim as they...
...sickness, for undergraduates not being there. This year must set a precedent to those following. If we do nothing in the way of welding the College into a sense of unity, the men who come here in later years will feel no obligations to the University, and Harvard will sink slowly into an overgrown day-school, where men come and go with no thought of anything but themselves. With this object of educating the lower classes into a realization of Harvard spirit, the baseball mass meeting was held. And it was a great success as far as it went...
...amendment is out of the question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction, and a resumption of the ways...
...attracted more attention than ever before. I feel very strongly that the advantage gained by educating the people to the importance of a good navy should not be lost. Unless we do something in the near future to arouse interest, I am afraid that the navy will sink back to its former size and condition...
...martialed, lined up and their citizenship ended by bullets; those who express treasonable sentiments should be tried and punished, but in all cases law should be obeyed and mob violence, as practised in certain parts of the United States, should be condemned everywhere, that the United States may not sink to the lawless savagery of the Germans...