Word: stake
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...interests of a class and not of a clique, however just the cause of that clique, are at stake. There is nothing intrinsically wrong in "getting out" and "influencing" the voters; there would be nothing intrinsically wrong in mass meetings addressed by the candidates; yet at Harvard we do not intend to stand for either. There is nothing wrong in taking advantage of the mistakes of one's political competitors, but at Harvard we will not even stand for the rumor that those who compiled the provisional voting list intentionally omitted a single name. Electioneering, whether in a private study...
...outside. The crews got off at 6.35 o'clock, but as Sargent jumped his slide in the first few strokes, both eights stopped rowing when Blagden raised his hand as a signal of an accident. After this false start, further delay was caused by the drifting of the Cornell stake-boat. When the crews finally got away, Cornell gained a lead of half a length, both crews rowing 40 strokes to the minute. Soon after the start the stroke of both eights was lowered to 36, with Cornell leading and at the half-mile mark Cornell was still half...
...realize that the theatre is not merely a place "for the wise to seek foolish gratification and the foolish to remain so." Let everybody help free the theatre from this commercial bondage. The opposition will be vigorous; but we must remember that there is a far greater issue at stake than merely the theatre. If art is to survive in the State, we must liberate it and make good citizens of its adherents...
...soldiers disarming the whole reservation and shooting down the defenceless Indians and afterwards chasing and killing the women. Human nature is the same the world over. We have been barbaric, we have been cruel, but you take a poor negro, cover him with oil and burn him at the stake. We have not done this for a hundred years, and yet you are a civilized people...
Tomorrow elections will be held in every state and country in the United States. In many of these districts there are issues at stake peculiar to the community, which will be decided by the result of the voting tomorrow. In not a few communities, unfortunately, contests will be decided between factions representing government by boss rule on the one hand, and by clean, straightforward, progressive men on the other. Whatever a man's political affiliation, these questions are of greater importance than merely partisan distinctions. Those men in the University who are registered voters are given every chance to make...