Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your editorial in the CRIMSON of Oct. 14, regarding the stand of the W. C. T. U. as to tobacco, and another on the subject of alcoholic conviviality which appeared in almost your first issue this fall, have aroused my curiosity...
...serve only six months in jail, although it was stated that he was identified by three women, presumably victims of his attacks. There was absolutely lacking any proof of these twenty-eight alleged attacks--the facts are merely alleged, and no alleged fact without supporting evidence can or does stand before the law. If it was impossible to secure evidence or apprehend the offender it is a reflection on the Omaha officials, and they should be replaced; but this I can scarcely believe. The alternative is that no such attacks occurred, and they have been merely alleged. At all events...
...members besieging the Army food stores in Boston is a proof of the dire straights to which people have been forced by the present high cost of living. For although all of us remember our daily mess in the service with great relish no doubt, nevertheless we would hardly stand in line all day for Army "grub" unless compelled to do so by dire necessity...
Last spring, honest opposition to the League of Nations as it then stood--which stand the CRIMSON shared--offered a possibility of some document being evolved of more lasting value. Opposition now can only prolong the chaotic condition of all European countries, and continue the industrial foment of our own country...
...period for practice with the new style of examination. An examiner, with a stop watch, presided over each group of forty or fifty. The test was divided into four parts. Each student was given at first two sharp pencils and a printed pamphlet of questions. The examiner took his stand and at a set time said "Go." Each question, or puzzle, or test--and there were hundreds of them given each person--had to be finished by the second hand and the candidate had to proceed to the next...