Word: stake
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part in "enforcing peace" in the world. And we have been already called upon--to our shame--to speak up for the principles we have professed. We must be able to "speak, and be listened to" when questions of international law and common humanity are at stake. This means the necessity of deliberate and sufficient military training...
...while it was going on, as a catastrophe which could never be repeated. But now they have seen a contest, based upon conflicting national interests that might at some future time apply to this hemisphere; and they have stood themselves upon the brink of war, although the interests at stake between the contending powers in no way affected this country. They have been like the man who thinks he is so careful about his own domestic affairs that it is unnecessary to insure his buildings, until his neighbor's house catches fire. To the great mass of our people...
...June 26. The University made only 3 hits off Way, and all of these came in the first two innings. The agreement with Yale and Princeton required that the game be played so that the championship could be decided on a percentage basis, even though there was nothing at stake in the contest...
...team,--especially in the forward line. Yale is undefeated, with a possible championship in view. The University, on the other hand, has already lost to Dartmouth, and can at the most hope only for a tie at the end of the season. In other words, we have less at stake tonight than Yale. While beating a New Haven team is glory enough in itself to call forth the best efforts of the University seven, yet tonight's contest is harder for Harvard than it would be with the circumstances reversed...
...vice-versa; and this idea is built up by small but vivid impressions like the above, together with the vaguer general knowledge which each has of the workings of the other institution. These sharper impressions have come chiefly, hitherto, from athletic events; and I cannot too strongly emphasize the stake which every man in college has in keeping those events (as well as handling questions of eligibility, etc.) high and dry above all criticism. But there are many other passes, as the above incident shows; and they are bound to multiply. And in every one of them, the added ounce...