Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action of the Student Council in appointing a committee to investigate the ever-present problem of the Union should produce results. The Union cannot continue indefinitely with yearly financial losses nor can it accomplish its full purpose without the support of more undergraduates. From the Union's point of view, compulsory membership would place the finances upon a sound footing and the Union could go ahead with improvements and schemes to make it more attractive and useful for its members...
...readers in the current issue, although the art of writing editorials has yet to be acquired with further experience of the joys of editorship. The first one is righteously indignant with the Boston American's attack on President Lowell, but its grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia, ae, like mensa), and consequently it is not only hard...
...message will be relayed from Cambridge by the members of the Harvard Wireless Club to Lexington to be read at the Washington's birthday exercises, and a copy will be delivered to Governor McCall. If amateur wireless operators, without the most powerful apparatus, demonstrate successfully the necessary efficiency to accomplish this feat, they will add materially to the military equipment of the nation...
...With manhood suffrage goes manhood service.' Until we recognize that principle the country will never be safe. If we bear it in mind, we shall accomplish a great deal toward preventing...
...order to make the preparedness movement in the University something more than an ephemeral interest in drilling, a course of lectures in military science has been arranged for the second half-year. To accomplish its object--certainly constructive and essential--the course must be taken by all men qualified to count it toward a degree, and attended by as many others as possible. The lectures will cover the most interesting phase of military training; and those who have done the most irksome part at the summer camps or in the state militias, will not reap the greatest possible benefit...